nonoxygenated
English
Etymology
non- + oxygenated
Adjective
nonoxygenated (not comparable)
- Not oxygenated.
- 2008 March 10, Erica Goode, “Toddler Returns to Iraq After Life-Saving Surgery”, in New York Times:
- In a three-hour operation on Feb. 11, she and her team divided the large vein that carries blood from the upper body, the superior vena cava, and sewed it to the pulmonary artery, taking nonoxygenated blood and sending it straight to the lungs, bypassing the heart.
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