Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun arterial_blood_gases

1 sense of arterial blood gases

Sense 1
arterial blood gases -- (measurement of the pH level and the oxygen and carbon dioxide concentrations in arterial blood; important in diagnosis of many respiratory diseases)
       => measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration -- (the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate")