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debt

 [det]
something owed.
oxygen debt the extra oxygen that must be used in the oxidative energy processes after a period of strenuous exercise to reconvert lactic acid to glucose and decomposed ATP and creatine phosphate to their original states.
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ox·y·gen debt

the extra oxygen, taken in by the body during recovery from exercise, beyond the resting needs of the body; sometimes used as if synonymous with oxygen deficit.
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oxygen debt

n.
The amount of extra oxygen required by muscle tissue during recovery from vigorous exercise.
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ox·y·gen debt

(ok'si-jĕn det)
The extra oxygen, taken in by the body during recovery from exercise, beyond the resting needs of the body; sometimes used as if synonymous with oxygen deficit.
Synonym(s): excess postexercise oxygen consumption.
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oxygen debt

a state that arises in very active muscles when insufficient oxygen is supplied by the lungs, causing the muscle tissue to respire anaerobically with the production of LACTIC ACID. When muscular activities slow down, the rate and depth of breathing remains at a high level until the lactic acid has been oxidized. Oxygen debt can be measured as the difference between the amount of oxygen required after strong muscular activity and the amount required in a resting state. In trained athletes, the debt can be as high as 18 litres of oxygen.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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We determined the effects of increasing circulating concentrations of a highly purified PBH (OC99) on hemodynamics, metabolic correlates of oxygen debt (lactate, base deficit), and tissue oxygenation in a large animal model of controlled hemorrhagic shock.
"You're short of breath and no doubt that at times your body feels in oxygen debt.
Think of it this way: The heart works harder to deliver oxygen-rich blood to the muscles to make up the oxygen debt that started at AT.
Moving slowly at first for about five minutes gives your body a chance to adapt without incurring an oxygen debt that you'll pay off with pain.
During college I rowed crew and, like my teammates, got chills when our coach explained that our training was designed to take us deeper and deeper into oxygen debt. But when I stopped rowing I lost my taste for lactic acid.
She put so much into staying away from the chasing bunch up the final climb she was in oxygen debt afterwards and unable to talk for more than five minutes.
Successful wrestlers become very familiar with the terrifying condition known as "oxygen debt"--a state in which a grappler ignores his depleted muscles, overtaxed lungs, straining heart and surging panic, continuing to fight out of sheer willpower.
During this blockage, the researchers measured the heart's growing oxygen debt.
Traditionally referred to as the "oxygen debt," this replenishment of oxygen during recovery is also known as excess post-exercise oxygen consumption" (EPOC).
(We feel worn out.) After the contraction, lactic acid is oxidized (consuming oxygen and developing heat), thus paying off the oxygen debt that piled up during the preceding reaction (anaerobic glycolysis, Greek for "sugar-splitting without air").
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