perfluorochemicaln.
/pəˈflʊərə(ʊ)ˌkɛmᵻkl/, /pəˈflɔːrə(ʊ)ˌkɛmᵻkl/, U.S. /pərˈflʊroʊˌkɛmək(ə)l/, /pərˈflɔroʊˌkɛmək(ə)l/ Chemistry.
A perfluorinated organic compound; esp. any of a number of such compounds used in the form of emulsions as oxygen carriers in synthetic blood substitutes.
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1967 Jrnl. Chem. & Engin. Data 12 127/1 A discussion of the special properties of perfluorochemicals which makes [sic] them effective as partitioning liquids for the separation of lower molecular weight paraffins from cycloparaffins has been given previously.
1973 Science 16 Feb. 669/1 Recently..a small number of investigators have begun to demonstrate that certain perfluorochemicals..can supply oxygen transport and, in conjunction with a simulated blood serum, perform many functions of whole blood.
1985 G. C. Chesbro Beasts of Valhalla (1987) i. vi. 47 It's Fluosol-DA, an oxygenated perfluorochemical; PFC, for short.
1994 New Scientist 30 Apr. 53/1 ‘Ventilating’ premature babies with an oxygenated liquid perfluorochemical..is potentially a very valuable technique.
2000 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. H. 278 383 Six ventricular septa were isolated from anesthetized dogs..and perfused artificially with an oxygenated perfluorochemical emulsion.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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