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Definition of Hypoxemia
1. Noun. (medicine) An abnormal deficiency in the concentration of oxygen in the blood, be it the partial pressure of oxygen (mm Hg), the content of oxygen (ml oxygen per dl of blood) or the per cent saturation of the blood's hemoglobin, singly or in combination. ¹
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Definition of Hypoxemia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypoxemia
Literary usage of Hypoxemia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Acute Perinatal Asphyxia in Term Infants: Report of the Workshopedited by Linda L. Wright, Gerald B. Merenstein, Deborah Hirtz edited by Linda L. Wright, Gerald B. Merenstein, Deborah Hirtz (1997)
"Brief hypoxemia switches off the spontaneous EEG activity in preterm infants.0 Visual
evoked responses in preterm infants were also consistently affected at ..."
2. Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"Asthma exacerbations are associated with a variable combination of hypoxemia and
hypocapnia, hypoxemia and normo- or hypercapnia, and acidosis, depending on ..."
3. Disability Evaluation Under Social Security edited by Barry Leonard (1999)
"Sleep-related breathing disorders (sleep apneas) are caused by periodic cessation
of respiration associated with hypoxemia and frequent arousals from sleep. ..."
4. Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States (1994)
"... R. History of chronic alcohol abuse is associated with increased nighttime
hypoxemia in older men. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 11:368-371, 1987. ..."
5. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"Forty-six adults undergoing dental procedures were monitored with a pulse oximeter
for hypoxemia. Thirty-six patients received various amounts and ..."
6. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"Also, the chronic hypoxemia of COPD is usually absent in ... In the advanced
disease, the presence of hypoxemia and hypercapnia promotes pulmonary ..."
7. Management & Therapy of Sickle Cell Disease edited by Clarice D. Reid, Samuel Charace, Bertram Lubin (1997)
"It is an acute illness characterized by new pulmonary infiltrates on the chest
x-ray and varying degrees of chest pain, dyspnea, hypoxemia, fever, ..."
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