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Definition of Asphyxia
1. Noun. A condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas.
Terms within: Hypoxia, Hypercapnia, Hypercarbia
Derivative terms: Asphyxiate, Asphyxiate, Asphyxiate
Definition of Asphyxia
1. n. Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.
Definition of Asphyxia
1. Noun. The loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia. Asphyxia can be result from choking, drowning, electric shock, injury. ¹
2. Noun. 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. ¹
3. Noun. (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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Asphyxia
1. unconsciousness caused by lack of oxygen [n -S]
Medical Definition of Asphyxia
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