asphyxia
IPA: æsfˈɪksiʌ
noun
- Loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia.
- 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.
- (medicine, obsolete) A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body leads to loss of consciousness or death. Replaced in the mid-20th century by the more specific terms anoxia, hypoxia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia.
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Examples of "asphyxia" in Sentences
- An example of asphyxia is choking.
- Death by heart attack and asphyxia.
- He died in poverty due to asphyxia.
- These are also repetition of Asphyxia.
- Asphyxiant gas will redirect to Asphyxia.
- The cause of death was homicide by asphyxia.
- Hazards include flammability, freezing and asphyxia.
- There is abnormal lobulation of the lungs and neonatal asphyxia.
- The employment of intracardiac injection of adrenaline in asphyxia.
- The victim dies from asphyxia caused by paralysis of the respiratory muscles.
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