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Referring to glands and cells in the stomach which produce acid.  

A compound of haemoglobin and oxygen, which is the way oxygen is carried in arterial blood from the lungs to the tissues. The compound formed when the pigment haemoglobin in the erythrocytes (red blood cells) combines with oxygen. This is a reversible reaction whereby the oxygen, carried in this way from the lungs to the…

Any treatment involving the administering of oxygen, e.g. in an oxygen tent or in emergency treatment for heart failure. The administration of oxygen for the treatment of conditions resulting from oxygen deficiency. It is used to combat acute arterial hypoxia that may result from pneumonia, pulmonary edema, or obstruction to breathing. It is also employed…

A type of cover put over a person so that he or she can breathe in oxygen. Airtight enclosure for a patient’s head and shoulders in which the oxygen content of the air can be raised above normal. Now rarely used, a sheet of plastic put over a hospital bed with oxygen fed into it…

A heavy metal tube which contains oxygen and is connected to a patient’s oxygen mask.  

A machine which puts oxygen into the blood, used as an artificial lung in surgery. A machine that oxygenates blood outside the body. It is used together with pumps to maintain the patient’s circulation while he is undergoing open heart surgery or to improve the circulation of a patient with heart or lung disorders that…

Blood which has received oxygen in the lungs and is being carried to the tissues along the arteries.  

To combine blood with oxygen.  

A condition in which the skull is shaped into a point, with exophthalmos and poor sight. Congenital malformation of the skull in which premature closure of the coronal and sagittal sutures results in accelerated upward growth of the head, giving it a long, narrow appearance. A deformity of the bones of the skull giving the…

Referring to oxycephaly.