Definition of deoxygenate in English:
deoxygenate
verb diːˈɒksɪdʒəneɪtdiˈɑksədʒəˌneɪt
[with object]usually as adjective deoxygenatedRemove oxygen from.
Example sentencesExamples
- Remember the floods, which brought deoxygenated water with rotting vegetation that smells like raw sewerage to Ballina, and killed all the fish in the Richmond?
- The right ventricle then pumps deoxygenated blood through the pulmonic valve and back to the lungs.
- This non-invasive device uses a combination red and infra-red light passed through a patient's finger to determine a ratio of oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin.
- The right side of the heart receives deoxygenated blood though the veins.
- Silting, aggravated by autumn leaf fall, had deoxygenated the water but the conservation-keen couple were reluctant to restore the tarn until they knew more about its history.
Derivatives
noundiːɒksɪdʒəˈneɪʃ(ə)n
S. Sherman first showed that the shape of the red cell depends on the rate of deoxygenation.
Example sentencesExamples
- This can in turn lead to blocked waterways and deoxygenation of the water, leading to the death of aquatic animals.
- Reoxygenation experiments were also carried out to confirm the reversibility of the deoxygenation experiments.
- Linus Pauling recalled how in 1945 he heard from W. B. Castle, a Harvard physician, about sickle cells and the need for deoxygenation to produce them.
- More importantly, it can lead to deoxygenation through a chain of events which starts with increased turbidity arising from bottom feeding, the loss of aquatic plants, and the growth of algae.
Definition of deoxygenate in US English:
deoxygenate
verbdiˈɑksədʒəˌneɪtdēˈäksəjəˌnāt
[with object]usually as adjective deoxygenatedRemove oxygen from.
Example sentencesExamples
- The right ventricle then pumps deoxygenated blood through the pulmonic valve and back to the lungs.
- Remember the floods, which brought deoxygenated water with rotting vegetation that smells like raw sewerage to Ballina, and killed all the fish in the Richmond?
- This non-invasive device uses a combination red and infra-red light passed through a patient's finger to determine a ratio of oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin.
- The right side of the heart receives deoxygenated blood though the veins.
- Silting, aggravated by autumn leaf fall, had deoxygenated the water but the conservation-keen couple were reluctant to restore the tarn until they knew more about its history.