unoxygenated
IPA: ʌnˈɑksʌdʒʌneɪtɪd
adjective
- Not oxygenated.
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Examples of "unoxygenated" in Sentences
- All else took on the tinge of these unoxygenated corpuscles.
- She also allowed parts of herself to circulate through the doctor's body along with his unoxygenated blood.
- Pulmonary arteries, which extend from the heart to the lungs, are the only arteries in the mammalian body that carry dark, unoxygenated blood.
- Adventure and fantasy pioneerism aside, most people aren't going to get very excited about living on an arid, unoxygenated rock for a good portion of their lives.
- Transposition of the aorta and pulmonary artery, which results in the heart's recirculating unoxygenated blood out to the body, used to be fatal about 90 percent of the time, but now has a 90 percent survival rate after surgery.
- It is attended with a sensation of universal distress, which perhaps may arise from the circulation of unoxygenated blood, or the accumulation of carbon in the system; for the countenance becomes livid, and the skin, especially that of the extremities, receives a permanent dark colour.
- It is generally known that the lower air-breathing Vertebrates (Reptiles and Batrachians) have the heart less completely divided than in the higher classes, so that the oxygenated (or arterial) blood and the unoxygenated (or venous) blood become mixed in the single or imperfectly divided ventricle.
- As good catholics withdraw from the world now and then for the sake of their souls -- so I, for the sake of my body (and chiefly of my liver) have retired for a fortnight or so to the Yorkshire moors -- the nearest place to London where I can find dry air 1500 feet above the sea, and the sort of uphill exercise which routs out all the unoxygenated crannies of my organism.
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