Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
CO-Ossimetro
English translation:
CO-Oximeter
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Joseph Tein
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Dec 10, 2018 00:19
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Italian term
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Native in: English 
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CO
Italian to English
Medical
Medical (general)
lab tests
This is from a list of blood test results.
It starts with pH, pCO2, pO2, Na+, K+ ... and then there is a heading (in bold letters) "CO-Ossimetro" followed by tHb, O2Hb, COHb, MetHb, HHb and SO2, followed by another heading: Derivati, with additional tests (There are no results given; all the fields are blank, it's just a form ... so I can't include any findings.)
So this CO acronym shows up twice in the list.
The only CO I can think of, and the only Acromed entry that comes close, is Carbon Monoxide ... but I've never seen carbon monoxide results in lab tests. Is this correct? Or could it be "concentration of oxygen"? I find a few (but very few) online English instances of this.
Thanks for your help with this little puzzle.
It starts with pH, pCO2, pO2, Na+, K+ ... and then there is a heading (in bold letters) "CO-Ossimetro" followed by tHb, O2Hb, COHb, MetHb, HHb and SO2, followed by another heading: Derivati, with additional tests (There are no results given; all the fields are blank, it's just a form ... so I can't include any findings.)
So this CO acronym shows up twice in the list.
The only CO I can think of, and the only Acromed entry that comes close, is Carbon Monoxide ... but I've never seen carbon monoxide results in lab tests. Is this correct? Or could it be "concentration of oxygen"? I find a few (but very few) online English instances of this.
Thanks for your help with this little puzzle.
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Dec 10, 2018 00:35: Joseph Tein Created KOG entry
Discussion
A CO-oximeter is a device that measures the oxygen carrying state of hemoglobin in a blood specimen, including oxygen-carrying hemoglobin (O2Hb), non-oxygen-carrying but normal hemoglobin (HHb) (formerly, but incorrectly, referred to as 'reduced' hemoglobin), as well as the dyshemoglobins such as carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) and methemoglobin (MetHb). The use of 'CO' rather than 'Co' or 'co' is more appropriate since this designation represents a device that measures carbon monoxide (CO) bound to hemoglobin, as distinguished from simple oximetry which measures hemoglobin bound to molecular oxygen—O2Hb—or hemoglobin capable of binding to molecular oxygen—HHb. "