Word: oxygenate
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They devised a vacuum chamber in which they have exposed hundreds of pregnant white mice, each for a period of five hours, to a shortage of oxygen similar to that 28,000 feet up, the height of Mt. Everest...
...White mice," he explained, "had severe deformities of the brain, skull and skeleton when the mother had too little oxygen on the eighth day of pregnancy. Cleft palate was a common result of exposure on the 14th day, and a curious defect of the eye and eyelids--so-called 'open eye'--when the pregnancy had advanced to about sixteen days...
...Ingalls emphasized that the stage of pregnancy and the lack of oxygen were not the only factors in determining the nature and extent of the defect...
Like a Crazy Clock. Comte turned on oxygen as he passed 16,000 ft., watched his altimeter going "round and round like the hands of a crazy clock." After 15 minutes it registered 32,000 ft. The fog turned thin and milky, letting a little sunlight filter through. Suddenly there was a blinding flash. Said Comte afterward: "The whole cloud lit up, with me inside it. I felt lightning hit the top of my head a sharp blow and run through my hands into the control column. The plane continued flying steady, but I was scared...
...confused with anoxia, total absence of oxygen...