saturate medical definition

1. To imbue or impregnate thoroughly.
2. To soak, fill, or load to capacity.
3. To cause a substance to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance.
4. To satisfy all the chemical affinities of a substance; neutralize.
5. To dissolve a substance up to that concentration beyond which the addition of more results in a second phase.

Related Forms:

• saturable adjective

Related Forms:

• saturator noun