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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
deoxygenate .
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Examples
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Infracardiac: The pulmonary veins drain into the right atrium through the liver (hepatic) veins and the inferior vena cava (another of the large veins that normally carries only deoxygenated blood).
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During this surgery, the superior vena cava, one of the two large veins attached to the heart to return deoxygenated or blue blood from the upper half of the body, is disconnected from the heart and attached to the pulmonary artery.
Tricuspid Atresia 2010
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This means that deoxygenated or blue blood from the whole body goes to the lungs without passing through the heart.
Tricuspid Atresia 2010
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During this surgery, the inferior vena cava, the other large vein that returns deoxygenated blood to the heart from the lower half of the body, is disconnected from the heart and attached to the pulmonary artery.
Tricuspid Atresia 2010
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The hole allows oxygenated blood from the left side of the heart and deoxygenated blood from the right side to mix, increasing the amount of oxygen in the blood pumped to the body.
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During this surgery the inferior vena cava, a large vein that carries deoxygenated blood from the lower body into the heart, is disconnected from the heart and attached to the pulmonary artery.
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After these operations, deoxygenated blood (blue blood) flows to the lungs without passing through the right side of the heart.
Tricuspid Atresia 2010
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I believe, but I know it's my imagination, that my tongue can detect the blue vein in her tongue, trace the raised canal, detect the difference in temperature of the deoxygenated blood within the vein.
The Right Thing Robert Boswell 2011
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After this operation, all of the deoxygenated blood from the body goes to the lungs without passing through the heart.
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(Normally this large vein carries only deoxygenated, or “blue,” blood into the right atrium.)
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