second gas effect

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Noun

second gas effect (plural second gas effects)

  1. (medicine) A phenomenon in which a rapid uptake of a large volume of a gas (e.g. nitrous oxide) taken up from alveoli into pulmonary capillary blood leads to an increase in the concentration of gases remaining in the alveoli.
    Coordinate term: concentration effect

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