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Definition of Oxygenise

1. Verb. Change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule).

2. Verb. Dehydrogenate with oxygen.

3. Verb. Impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen. "Oxygenate blood"

Definition of Oxygenise

1. Verb. alternative spelling of oxygenize ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Oxygenise

1. To oxidise with oxygen. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxygenise

oxygen utilization coefficient oxygenase oxygenases oxygenate oxygenated oxygenated haemoglobin oxygenates oxygenating oxygenation oxygenations

oxygenator oxygenators oxygenian oxygenic oxygenic photosynthesis oxygenise oxygenised oxygenises oxygenising oxygenium

oxygenizable oxygenize oxygenized oxygenizement oxygenizes oxygenizing oxygenless oxygenlike oxygenous oxygens

Literary usage of Oxygenise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1809)
"Alcohol takes up from indigo already exhausted by water, 1. green matter, 2. a substance that may be called red matter, 3. indigo at a maximum of oxygenise- ..."

2. The Chemical Catechism: With Notes, Illustrations, and Experiments by Samuel Parkes (1816)
"When this is once known, they will soon find by experiment how to oxygenise their wash at the least expense, and in the least possible time. ..."

3. The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health (1839)
"The liver secretes bile, and does not perform digestion; the lungs oxygenise and revivify the blood, ..."

4. The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen (1881)
"Those individuals alone will then survive which display a tendency to oxygenise their blood by some rudimentary form of lung. Hence the possession of lungs ..."

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