saturation

saturation /sat·u·ra·tion/ (sach?ah-ra´shun)

1. the state of being saturated, or the act of saturating.

2. in radiotherapy, the delivery of a maximum tolerable tissue dose within a short period, then maintenance of the dose by additional smaller fractional doses over a prolonged period.

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oxygen saturation  the amount of oxygen bound to hemoglobin in the blood expressed as a percentage of the maximal binding capacity.

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sat·u·ra·tion (sch-rshn)

n. Abbr. sat.

1. The act or process of saturating.

2. The condition of being saturated.

3. The condition of being full to or beyond satisfaction; satiety.

4. Filling of all the available sites on an enzyme molecule by its substrate, or on a hemoglobin molecule by molecular oxygen or carbon monoxide.

5. In optics, the degree which colors of the same wavelength are differentiated from one another on the basis of purity which correlates with the amount of white present, such as red from pink.

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saturation,

n 1. a condition in which a solution contains as much solute as can remain dissolved.
2. a measure of the degree to which oxygen is bound to hemoglobin, expressed as a percentage of the possible limit.
3. a chemical compound in which all the valency bonds have been filled.

saturation, color,

n the quality of color that distinguishes the degree of vividness of hue.

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saturation

the state of being saturated, or the act of saturating.

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saturation kinetics

point of high initial concentration of substrate after which the rate of reaction is independent of further increases in initial substrate concentration, and the enzyme is saturated with substrate.