2. Adjective. Describing a breathing gas mixture that contains less than 21% oxygen. ¹
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Definition of Hypoxic
1. hypoxia [adj] - See also: hypoxia
Medical Definition of Hypoxic
1. Denoting or characterised by hypoxia. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypoxic
Literary usage of Hypoxic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Emergency And Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels For Selected Submarine by Best, National Research Council (U.S.), Committee on Toxicology (2007)
"(1983) reported greater pulmonary ventilation during normobaric hypoxic ...
Collectively, these studies suggest that normobaric hypoxic conditions result in ..."
2. RREL Hazardous Waste Research Symposium: Abstract Proceedings, 19th Annual (1993)
"Moreover, laboratory studies with microcosms suggested the ascendancy of bacterial
populations under hypoxic (ie, oxygen limited) conditions whose growth ..."
3. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"MM, Rabinovitch M. Chronic hypoxic pulmonary hypertension 254. in rats and
increased elastolytic activity. Am J Physiol 261 (Heart Gire Physiol ..."
4. Acute Perinatal Asphyxia in Term Infants: Report of the Workshopedited by Linda L. Wright, Gerald B. Merenstein, Deborah Hirtz edited by Linda L. Wright, Gerald B. Merenstein, Deborah Hirtz (1997)
"In the neo- nate, cerebral edema that occurs with severe hypoxic-ischemic
encephalopathy appears to be a sign of injury rather than a contributor to it.2 ..."