adjective
- having had oxygen removed or depleted
Usage: scientific; medical
Examples
- Deoxygenated blood returns to the heart through the veins.
- The lake became deoxygenated due to pollution.
- Fish cannot survive in severely deoxygenated water.
- The deoxygenated blood appears darker in color.
- Scientists studied the deoxygenated zones in the ocean.
- The patient’s deoxygenated blood was monitored carefully.