second gas effect (English, noun)
expansion: second gas effect (plural second gas effects)
Senses:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A phenomenon in which a rapid uptake of a large volume of a gas (e.g. nitrous oxide) taken up from alveoli into pulmonary capillary blood leads to an increase in the concentration of gases remaining in the alveoli.
Forms:
form: second gas effects
tags: plural