All 3 Uses of

saturate
in
The Hot Zone

When a hot virus multiplies in a host, it can saturate the body with virus particles, from the brain to the skin.†
p. 18.7 *

saturate = to completely wet; or to fill

The corpse's connective tissue, skin, and organs, already peppered with dead spots, heated by fever, and damaged by shock, begin to liquefy, and the fluids that leak from the cadaver are saturated with Ebola-virus particles.†
p. 109.2

At various places inside the monkey house, they set out patches of paper saturated with spores of a harmless bacterium known as Bacillus subtilis niger.†
p. 355.5

Definition:

to completely wet

or:

to fill

in various senses, including:

chemistry: saturate a solution -- to fill a solution with as much of something as it can hold
business: saturate a market -- to fill a market with a good
advertising: saturation advertising -- to advertise a great deal
military: saturation bombing -- to bomb an area extensively
color theory: color saturation -- color intensity
biology: saturated fat -- filled with hydrogen atoms (most people eat more than is healthy)
physics: magnetic saturation -- intensity of a magnetic charge