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Definition The total amount of oxygen carried in the blood expressed as volume of oxygen in unit volume of blood. PTC It is usual to value the total blood content of oxygen as ml O2 per deciliters of blood. The arterial blood O2 content is around 20 ml O2/100 ml blood or 20 ml O2 %. The deoxygenated venous blood is not completely de-oxygenated as the venous O2 content is still about 15 ml O2 %. There is at rest, a tissue consumption of a quarter of the total oxygen content in arterial blood.
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Cheng, H.M., Jusof, F. (2018). Oxygen Transport. In: Defining Physiology: Principles, Themes, Concepts. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0499-6_8
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