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noun
a small tentlike canopy placed over a sick person for delivering and maintaining a flow of oxygen at critical periods.
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Origin of oxygen tent First recorded in 1920–25
Words nearby oxygen tent oxygen-deprivation theory of narcosis ,
oxygen effect ,
oxygenize ,
oxygen lance ,
oxygen mask ,
oxygen tent ,
oxygen toxicity ,
oxygen weed ,
oxygeusia ,
oxyhaemoglobin ,
oxyheme
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How to use oxygen tent in a sentence Just 24 hours later, the American people were informed that their war-hero president was in an oxygen tent at Fitzsimons Army Hospital being treated by one of the best cardiologists in the country.
The others are difficult to identify, since they reacted with other oxygen-bearing molecules in the soil.
It reacts very readily with oxygen by burning smokelessly, with carbon dioxide and water as its byproducts.
Their decay proceeded without a ready supply of oxygen, producing hydrocarbons like methane instead of oxygen-bearing molecules.
As the heart pumps blood to the far reaches of the body, it requires its own blood flow to receive vital oxygen and nutrients.
The brain, also an organ, is particularly sensitive to the loss of oxygen.
The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.
Two young lovers were exchanging their hearts' yearnings beneath the children's tent, which they had found unoccupied.
The children possessed themselves of the tent, and Mrs. Pontellier went over to join them.
It was a sad day for Ramona and Alessandro when the kindly Hyers pulled up their tent-stakes and left the valley.
They lived at first in a tent; no time to build a house, till the wheat and vegetables were planted.
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British Dictionary definitions for oxygen tent
noun
med a transparent enclosure covering a bedridden patient, into which oxygen is released to help maintain respiration
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Medical definitions for oxygen tent
n.
A canopy placed over the head and shoulders or over the entire body of a patient to provide oxygen at a higher level than normal.
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