poisoning with carbon monoxide

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• Carbon monoxide poisoning — Poisoning with carbon monoxide, a tasteless odorless gas that is a byproduct of combustion. Carbon monoxide acts as a poison by competing with oxygen for binding sites on hemoglobin, the molecule in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the… …   Medical dictionary

• Poisoning, carbon monoxide — Poisoning with carbon monoxide, a tasteless odorless gas and byproduct of combustion that competes with oxygen binding sites on the hemoglobin molecule. Chronic carbon monoxide poisoning may be more common than is currently recognized. Patients… …   Medical dictionary

• Carbon monoxide detector — connected to a North American power outlet A carbon monoxide detector or CO detector is a device that detects the presence of the carbon monoxide (CO) gas in order to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning. CO is a colorless and odorless compound… …   Wikipedia

• Carbon monoxide poisoning — This article is about carbon monoxide poisoning. For general information on carbon monoxide, see carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide poisoning Classification and external resources Spacefilling model of a carbon monoxide molecule …   Wikipedia

• Carbon monoxide — chembox Name = Carbon monoxide ImageFileL1 = Carbon monoxide 2D.svg ImageSizeL1 = 100px ImageNameL1 = Structure of the carbon monoxide molecule ImageFileR1 = Carbon monoxide 3D vdW.png ImageSizeR1 = 120px ImageNameR1 = Space filling model of the… …   Wikipedia

• carbon monoxide — n a colorless odorless very toxic gas CO that burns to carbon dioxide with a blue flame and is formed as a product of the incomplete combustion of carbon * * * a colourless almost odourless gas that is very poisonous. When breathed in it combines …   Medical dictionary

• Carbon monoxide breath monitor — A carbon monoxide breath monitor (breath CO monitor) is a device used to measure the level of carbon monoxide in a user s exhalation. The device is used both as a motivational and educational tool for smoking cessation and also as a clinical aid… …   Wikipedia

• carbon monoxide — a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas, CO, that burns with a pale blue flame, produced when carbon burns with insufficient air: used chiefly in organic synthesis, metallurgy, and in the preparation of metal carbonyls, as nickel carbonyl. [1870 75] …   Universalium

• carbon monoxide poisoning — ▪ medicine       often fatal condition resulting from inhalation of carbon monoxide, frequently occurring in association with inhalation of smoke or automobile exhaust. Hemoglobin, the oxygen carrying substance in blood, has a much greater… …   Universalium

• carbon monoxide poisoning — noun a toxic condition that results from inhaling and absorbing carbon monoxide gas carbon monoxide combines with hemoglobin and displaces oxygen in the blood • Hypernyms: ↑poisoning, ↑toxic condition, ↑intoxication • Part Meronyms: ↑cyanosis * * …   Useful english dictionary

• Carbon dioxide — Carbon dioxide …   Wikipedia