Word: oxygenate
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...some occasions the dam's engineers been forced to admit salt water into the Charles to maintain the river's level. Salt creates sludge banks at the bottom of the river and prevents oxygen from circulating and "naturally" treating the sewage, according to Albitson...
...wrote, "a foul-smelling sewer feeds the accumulated filth from 1,200,000 people into this bay every 24 hours. This mass of putrefaction oozes about New Jersey and Staten Island shores for several days, washing the beaches with quantities of fecal bacteria, closing out the light and consuming oxygen required by fish and other forms of marine animal and plant life, before sluggishly moving seaward on the outgoing tide...
...days as mayor approached. He made only a feint here and there toward seriously talking with Quill, finally left town for Acapulco 20 hours before the strike deadline of 5 a.m. on Jan. 1. Moreover, Quill, a sick man who had had several heart attacks and slept with an oxygen tank by his bedside, was under heavy pressure from his union to win bigger wage hikes than he had been settling for. He realized that this might be his Last Hurrah...
...Either way, the result was the same. Blood mixed with material from inside the abscess to produce a clot that filled the artery cavity too tightly to be pushed along, thus blocking the arterial flow.* That part of the heart muscle beyond the plug, deprived of nourishing blood and oxygen, lost its elastic muscularity, disrupted the heart's delicate electrical-conduction system, and eventually stopped working. In some cases the victims of these occlusions were dead even before their blood-starved heart muscle had time to do any damage. Eleven succumbed instantly or within a few minutes; ten others...
...physiologist's way of saying that continued, excessive demands have depleted the oxygen normally stored in the tissues and red blood cells. It takes time to make good the deficit...