oxygenation
Americannoun
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In the Americas, doctors can help infected people by putting them on a life-support machine known as ECMO, for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which breathes for the patient by oxygenating the blood.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
In cases where hantavirus infection is suspected, Mertz said people should seek out urban medical centers that offer extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, which can be used to support the lungs.
From MarketWatch ● May 4, 2026
"Considered all together, MIT research has filled in the gaps in our knowledge of how Earth's oxygenation proceeded," Husain says.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 18, 2026
The chemists set themselves the ambitious goal of finding a general organic synthesis method for doing either the oxygenation or dehydrogenation reaction, as these versatile "bimodal" enzymes do in living cells.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2024
These are formed by prefixing the word oxygenated to the name of the salt produced by the second degree of oxygenation.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier
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