OXYGENATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oxygenate mean? 

• OXYGENATE (verb)
  The verb OXYGENATE has 1 sense:

1. impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen

  Familiarity information: OXYGENATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OXYGENATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they oxygenate    ... he / she / it oxygenates   
Past simple: oxygenated   
Past participle: oxygenated   
-ing form: oxygenating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

aerate; oxygenate; oxygenise; oxygenize

Context example:

oxygenate blood

Hypernyms (to "oxygenate" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

oxygen (a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust)

oxygenation (the process of providing or combining or treating with oxygen)

 Context examples 

These cells receive the least amount of oxygenated blood and are thus more prone to ischemia and store fat.

(Liver Acinus Zone 3, NCI Thesaurus)

However, this agent may stimulate the immune system to exert a cellular immune response, resulting in additional killing of tumor cells not lysed by the bacteria, including those in the well-oxygenated tumor area.

(Clostridium Novyi-NT Spores, NCI Thesaurus)

A class of oxygenated, endogenous, unsaturated fatty acids derived from arachidonic acid.

(Eicosanoid, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An artery that supplies oxygenated blood to the ear.

(Auricular Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

These electrodes contain photoelectric sensors capable to detect the specific wavelengths of radiation emitted by oxygenated versus reduced hemoglobin.

(Cutaneous Oximetry, NCI Thesaurus)

One of two vessels (anterior or posterior) carrying oxygenated blood to areas in the cranium, sinuses and nasal regions.

(Ethmoidal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Because of their close proximity to oxygenated blood, the cells in this zone carry out oxidative processes such as beta-oxidation, cholesterol synthesis and gluconeogenesis.

(Liver Acinus Zone 1, NCI Thesaurus)

A bluish or purplish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes resulting from a reduced amount of oxygenated hemoglobin in the blood.

(Cyanosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A class of hydrocarbons (carotenes) and their oxygenated derivatives which exhibit chemopreventive properties.

(Carotenoid, NCI Thesaurus)

As the heated water rises, cold, oxygenated water is pulled into the rocks, creating a massive undersea aquifer.

(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)