Aeration

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act or preparation of charging with carbonic acid gas or with oxygen.

II. Aeration ·noun Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, ·etc.

III. Aeration ·noun A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.