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air medical definition
noun
- A colorless, odorless, tasteless, gaseous mixture, approximately 78 percent nitrogen and approximately 21 percent oxygen with lesser amounts of argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, neon, helium, and other gases.
- This mixture, with varying amounts of moisture and particulate matter, enveloping Earth; the atmosphere.
- Any of various respiratory gases. No longer in technical use.
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