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- An oxygen hood is a plastic dome or box with warmed and humidified oxygen inside. The oxygen hood is used for babies who can breathe ...
- Urea nitrogen urine test is performed to check for the amount of urea in urine. Urine is collected over ...
- ... is a small device that measures your blood oxygen level. It does this by using beams of ... through your finger to determine the percentage of oxygen in your red blood cells. These devices can ...
- ... is a large muscular organ which constantly pushes oxygen-rich blood to the brain and extremities and transports oxygen-poor blood from the brain and extremities to ...
- ... rise from the right ventricle. This configuration allows oxygen-poor blood, to be carried throughout the body. The body is not able to get enough oxygen, causing the heart to work harder to try ...
- ... lie in the thoracic cavity. The lungs extract oxygen from inhaled air and transport the oxygen to the blood. Surrounding the lungs is a ...
- ... transport of blood with relatively low content of oxygen and high content of carbon dioxide. The vessels ... transport of blood with relatively high content of oxygen and low content of carbon dioxide.
- Chronically low blood levels of oxygen may lead to pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in the lungs), and possibly to cor pulmonale. Cor pulmonale is also called ...
- ... composed of a protein called heme, which binds oxygen. In the lungs, oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide. Abnormalities of an ...
- ... the chambers of the heart. Without the separation, oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor blood mix causing the heart to work ...