Noun
hypoxemia (countable and uncountable, plural hypoxemias)
(medicine) An abnormal deficiency in the concentration of oxygen in the blood, be it the partial pressure of oxygen (mm Hg), the content of oxygen (ml oxygen per dl of blood) or the per cent saturation of the blood's hemoglobin, singly or in combination.
Although hypoxemia normally stimulates ventilation and produces dyspnea, these phenomena and the other symptoms and signs of hypoxia are sufficiently variable in patients with COPD as to be of limited value in patient assessment. Source: Internet
Hypoxemia refers to severely low levels of oxygen in the blood, while sepsis refers to a systemic infection with the presence of toxic, pus-forming bacteria in the dog's blood stream. Source: Internet
Encyclopædia Britannica, stating hypoxemia (reduced oxygen tension in the blood). Source: Internet