Definition of "heliox" []

• A gas, a mixture of helium and oxygen used in medicine and in diving. (noun)

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• "The dolphin, which had been trained for the study, was given a mixture of 80 per cent helium and 20 per cent oxygen known as heliox through a US Navy Fenzy breather, which was placed over its blowhole."
• "Nitrox and heliox, Gideon knew, were air mixtures intended for use at great depth or during extended dives in order to alleviate the various problems, including the bends, oxygen toxicity, and nitrogen narcosis, that came as the result of gases being compressed—or decompressed—in the human body."
• "If a patient is in a heliox atmosphere long enough, he can “freeze” to death even near room temperature, if he is not properly bundled up."