ALL meanings of asphyxia
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A a - uncountable noun asphyxia Asphyxia is death or loss of consciousness caused by being unable to breathe properly. 3
- noun asphyxia lack of oxygen in the blood due to restricted respiration; suffocation. If severe enough and prolonged, it causes death 3
- noun asphyxia loss of consciousness as a result of too little oxygen and too much carbon dioxide in the blood: suffocation causes asphyxia 3
- noun asphyxia suffocation 1
- noun asphyxia the extreme condition caused by lack of oxygen and excess of carbon dioxide in the blood, produced by interference with respiration or insufficient oxygen in the air; suffocation. 1
- noun asphyxia A condition arising when the body is deprived of oxygen, causing unconsciousness or death; suffocation. 1
- noun asphyxia The loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia. Asphyxia can be result from choking, drowning, electric shock, injury. 0
- noun asphyxia The loss of consciousness due to the body's inability to deliver oxygen to its tissues, either by the breathing of air lacking oxygen or by the inability of the blood to carry oxygen. Such asphyxia can be result from the inhalation of non-toxic gases which displace oxygen from the inhaled air, by exposure to carbon monoxide from smoke inhalation such that hemoglobin is poisoned, or the development of methemoglobinemia. 0
- noun asphyxia (medicine) A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body leads to loss of consciousness or death. The term is now obsolete, having been replace in mid-twentieth century by the more specific terms anoxia, hypoxia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia. 0