Oxygenation

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Oxygenation

Oxygenation refers to either the amount of oxygen

Oxygen

Oxygen no O2 produced; 2) O2 produced, but absorbed in oceans & seabed rock; 3) O2 starts to gas out of the oceans, but is absorbed by land surfaces and formation of ozone layer; 4-5) O2 sinks filled and the gas accumulates]]...
in a (usually liquid) medium or to the process of adding oxygen to a medium to increase its oxygen content.

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Blood

Blood is a specialized bodily fluid that delivers necessary substances to the body's Cell s ? such as nutrients and oxygen ? and transports waste products away from those same cells....
, the term oxygenation is used synonymously with oxygen saturation

Oxygen saturation

Oxygen saturation or Dissolved oxygen is a relative measure of the amount of oxygen that is dissolved or carried in a given medium. It can be measured with a dissolved oxygen probe such as an oxygen sensor or an optode in liquid media, usually water....
, which describes the degree to which the oxygen

Oxygen

Hemoglobin

Hemoglobin is the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein in the red blood cells of vertebrates, and the tissues of some invertebrates....
found in red blood cells is utilised, expressed as a percentage, with around 98-100% being considered normal saturation in a healthy person.

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Oxygenation refers to either the amount of oxygen

Oxygen

Medical

In blood

Blood

Oxygen saturation

Oxygen

Hemoglobin

Pulse oximeter

A pulse oximeter is a medical device that indirectly measures the oxygen saturation of a patient's blood and changes in blood volume in the skin, producing a photoplethysmograph....
is used to measure this value.

Oxygenation also refers to the process of adding oxygen to a medium such as blood

Blood

Biological tissue

Tissue is a cellular organizational level intermediate between cells and a complete organism. Hence, a tissue is an ensemble of cells, not necessarily identical, but from the same origin, that together carry out a specific function....
. Claims have been made that oxygenation of human tissue, such as by ozone therapy

Ozone therapy

Some people, including a number of doctors of medicine and biochemists, believe ozone has remarkable healing properties. Others have argued that it is nonscientific and has no proven benefits....
or hydrogen peroxide therapy can prevent or treat disease

Disease

A disease or medical condition is an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs bodily functions, associated with specific symptoms and Medical signs....
s, including cancer

Cancer

Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cell display uncontrolled growth , invasion , and sometimes metastasis . These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, do not invade or metastasize....
. However some regard these claims as unverifiable.

Oxygenation of various fluorocarbon

Fluorocarbon

Fluorocarbons, sometimes referred to as perfluorocarbons, are organofluorine compounds that contain only carbon and fluorine bonded together in strong carbon?fluorine bonds....
and perfluorocarbon

Perfluorocarbon

Perfluorocarbons are fluorocarbons, compounds derived from hydrocarbons by replacement of hydrogen atoms by fluorine atoms. PFCs are made up of carbon and fluorine atoms only, such as octafluoropropane, perfluorohexane and perfluorodecalin....
liquids has been used successfully in liquid breathing

Liquid breathing

Liquid breathing is a postulated form of Respiration in which a normally air-breathing organism breathes an oxygen-rich liquid , rather than breathing air....
systems, allowing air-breathing animals, including humans, to breathe an oxygenated liquid for a short period of time.

Environmental

Environmental oxygenation can be important to the sustainability

Sustainability

Sustainability, in a broad sense, is the ability to maintain a certain process or state. It is now most frequently used in connection with biological and human systems....
of a particular ecosystem

Ecosystem

An ecosystem is a natural unit consisting of all plants, animals and micro-organisms in an area functioning together with all of the non-living physical factors of the environment....
. Usually, environmental hypoxia

Hypoxia (environmental)

Hypoxia or oxygen depletion is a phenomenon that occurs in aquatic environments as oxygen becomes reduced in concentration to a point detrimental to aquatic organisms living in the system....
is an issue in bodies of water, such as pond

Pond

A pond is a body of water smaller than a lake, both being examples of terrain feature. Although the term pond is universally used to describe waterbodies that are smaller than lakes, an internationally recognised size cutoff has not yet been agreed, with values ranging from 2 hectares to 8 hectares used to distinguish the smaller from...
s and river

River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
s. Hypoxic bodies of water tend to suppress the presence of aerobic organism

Aerobic organism

An aerobic organism or aerobe is an organism that can survive and grow in an oxygenated environment....
s such as fish

Fish

A fish is any marine biology vertebrate animal that is typically ectothermic , covered with scale , and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins....
, with deoxygenation potentially resulting in fish kill

Fish kill

The term fish kill is applied to a localized die-off of aquatic life. It may result from a variety of causes, including hazardous waste spills, hypoxia , algal blooms, overpopulation of a predator species, earthquakes, unusual weather conditions, underwater explosions, and other catastrophic events that can perturb a normally stable aquatic p...
s and other adverse events. Increasing the population of anaerobic organism

Anaerobic organism

An anaerobic organism is any organism that does not require oxygen for growth and may even die in its presence....
s, including plants and some bacteria

Bacteria

The Bacteria are a large group of unicellular microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a wide range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals....
. The net effect is to alter the balance of nature

Balance of nature

The Balance of nature refers to the theory that biological systems are usually in a stable equilibrium, which is to say that a small change in some particular parameter will be corrected by some negative feedback that will bring the parameter back to its original "point of balance" with the rest of the system....
by increasing the concentration of anaerobic over aerobic species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
.

Oxygenation can be part of the environmental remediation of a usually stagnant

Water stagnation

Water stagnation occurs when water stops flowing. Stagnant water can be a major environmental hazard....
body of water. For example, Bubbly Creek

Bubbly Creek

Bubbly Creek is the nickname given to the South Fork of the Chicago River's South Branch, which runs entirely within the city of Chicago, Illinois....
in Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
, Illinois

Illinois

The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
, was hypoxic

Hypoxia (environmental)

Sewer

Sewer may refer to:*A system for transporting sewage:**Sanitary sewer, a system of pipes used to transport human waste**Storm drain, a collection and transportation system for storm water...
by Chicago's meat packing industry

Meat packing industry

The meat packing industry is an industry that handles the Slaughter , processing and Distribution of animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock....
but has been oxygenated by introducing compressed air

Compressed air

Compressed air is air which is kept under a certain pressure, usually greater than that of the atmosphere. In Europe 10 % of all electricity used by industry is used to produce compressed air....
into its waters, increasing the fish population.oxygenation

Oxygenation

Medical

Environmental

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