oxymeter

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oxymeter (plural oxymeters)

(dated, now nonstandard) Alternative spelling of oximeter
- 1836, “EUDIO′METER”, in A Medical Vocabulary, or Explanation of All Names, Synonymes, Terms and Phrases Used in Medicine, Surgery, and the Relative Branches of Medical Science; […], Edinburgh: John Carfrae & Son; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, & Co.; Dublin: Hodges & Smith, →OCLC, page 64, column 2:
  EUDIO′METER. [...] An instrument by which the quantity of oxygen and nitrogen in atmospheric air is ascertained: an oxymeter.
- 1950 January 25, Francis L. Chamberlain, “Therapy of Myocardial Infarction”, in The Bulletin of the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, volume 1, number 5, San Francisco, Calif.: University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, published March 1950, →OCLC, page 544:
  The Millikan oxymeter, with which Dr. Howard Bierman has been working and which he has discussed with this group, can be attached to the external ear and gives prompt information about oxygen saturation. It is so calibrated that the administration of 97 to 100% oxygen to normal individuals causes an increase of 5 per cent in the oxymeter reading.
- 1970 August, Stearns-Roger Corporation, “Plant Activities”, in Oak Ridge National Laboratory Vertical Tube Evaporator Pilot Plant: Annual Report for Fiscal Year 1969 (Research and Development Progress Report; No. 600), Washington, D.C.: Office of Saline Water, United States Department of the Interior, →OCLC, page 56:
  Recalibration of the oxymeters was done in January 1969 with a standard solution. Oxygen recordings by the oxymeters were as low as 10 ppb and agreed well with the Winkler tests. The Magna oxymeter was used successfully throughout the operation period to monitor the oxygen level in the deaerated brine.
- 2007, Tim Furniss, David J. Shayler, with Michael D. Shayler, “Soyuz 28”, in Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961–2006 (Springer-Praxis Books in Space Exploration), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; published in association with Praxis Publishing, →ISBN, page 211:
  The Chorella experiment studied the growth of algae cultures in a nutrient medium, and an oxymeter was used to study the concentrations of oxygen in human tissue in weightlessness.
- 2015 July 6, Julia Kemmler et al., “Exposure to 100% Oxygen Abolishes the Impairment of Fracture Healing after Thoracic Trauma”, in Jose Manuel Garcia Aznar, editor, PLoS One, volume 10, number 7, San Francisco, Calif.: Public Library of Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
  Mice subjected to intermittent O₂ treatment were exposed to 100% O₂ directly after surgery for two 3 hours intervals, with a period of 3 hours of normal ambient air in between. [...] O₂ concentration was continually recorded using an oxymeter.