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  • adjective (used of blood) not supplied with oxygen

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Examples

  • 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.

    That Was Then - This Is Now - NASA Watch 2009

  • She also allowed parts of herself to circulate through the doctor's body along with his unoxygenated blood.

    Charlotte's Nexus 2009

  • She also allowed parts of herself to circulate through the doctor's body along with his unoxygenated blood.

    Charlotte's Nexus Savannah Schroll Guz 2009

  • 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.

    'Your Baby Has A Problem' 2008

  • All else took on the tinge of these unoxygenated corpuscles.

    Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

  • 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.

    The Common Frog 1874

  • 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.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • 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.

    Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart John Collins Warren 1817

  • Pulmonary arteries, which extend from the heart to the lungs, are the only arteries in the mammalian body that carry dark, unoxygenated blood.

    unknown title 2009

  • Pulmonary arteries, which extend from the heart to the lungs, are the only arteries in the mammalian body that carry dark, unoxygenated blood.

    unknown title 2009

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