ARTERIAL BLOOD GASES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does arterial blood gases mean? 

• ARTERIAL BLOOD GASES (noun)
  The noun ARTERIAL BLOOD GASES has 1 sense:

1. measurement of the pH level and the oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in arterial blood; important in diagnosis of many respiratory diseases

  Familiarity information: ARTERIAL BLOOD GASES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARTERIAL BLOOD GASES (noun)

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Meaning:

Measurement of the pH level and the oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in arterial blood; important in diagnosis of many respiratory diseases

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Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("arterial blood gases" is a kind of...):

measure; measurement; measuring; mensuration (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule)