Oxygen Demand
The final word is that the body may be able to compensate for hypoxemia due to any of these causes, and so symptoms may be overlooked initially. However, further disease or a stress such as any increase in oxygen demand may finally unmask the existing hypoxemia.
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Famous quotes containing the words oxygen and/or demand:
“All the oxygen of the world was in them.
All the feet of the babies of the world were in them.
All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them.
All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation’s leaders wouldn’t know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)