under-oxygenated
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
under-oxygenated (comparative more under-oxygenated, superlative most under-oxygenated)
- Alternative form of underoxygenated
- 1999, Eric Liu, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, page 71:
- But there is also, on occasion, an under-oxygenated air of fantasy, a shimmering mirage of whitelessness and Asian self-sufficiency.
- 2005, Constance Grauds, Doug Childers, The Energy Prescription, page 56:
- Most of us chronically recycle impure, under-oxygenated blood through our bodies day after day, year after year.
- 2023, Jacques Chaineaux, The Mechanisms of Explosions, page 26:
- More generally, combustion in highly under-oxygenated environments of hydrocarbon molecules produces solid C and that of molecules containing halogen X atoms (with X = F, Cl, Br or I), produces HX compounds, or even COX2, when the medium is highly oxygenated.