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noun
An assessment of lung function; the ratio of partial pressure of oxygen in blood (PaO2), and the fraction of oxygen in the inhaled air (FiO2).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, pulmonology, sciences
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History
The ratio was first suggested in a 1974 paper by Joel H. Horovitz et al. The reason for the spelling with w is unclear.
