The nurse instructs a patient that his inhaled oxygen moved into the intravascular compartment by a process called:
a. active transport.
b. oxygenation.
c. passive transport.
d. mass movement.
C
Passive transport occurs when the patient inhales oxygen into the lungs, with the oxygen passing by diffusion into the intravascular compartment.
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