Look up: Asphyxia

1. asphyxia
   [n] - a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis
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2. Asphyxia
   Too little oxygen and too much carbon dioxide in the blood, causing the baby to suffocate.
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3. Asphyxia
   Unconsciousness or death produced by failure of the blood to become properly oxygenated. This failure may be due to inability of air to reach the lungs, as in suffocation, or because of chest injuries.
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4. asphyxia
   Condition resulting from insufficient intake of oxygen: symptoms include breathing difficulty, impairment of senses, and, in extreme, convulsions, unconsciousness and death.
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5. Asphyxia
   the medical term for suffocation; can be caused by choking on an object, by lack of oxygen in the air, or by chemicals such as carbon monoxide, which reduce the amount of oxygen in the blood
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6. Asphyxia
   Interference with the oxygen supply to the body, which in the absence of appropriate measures, will lead to unconsciousness and death
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7. Asphyxia
   Asphyxia: Impaired or impeded breathing.
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8. asphyxia
   1)Suffocation of a person due to total lack of oxygen in the inhaled air or in the circulating blood; 2)Extinction of a fire due to lack of oxygen for combustion Category: Management in the public and private sector • an inability to breathe,resulting from obstruction to air-flow at the mouth and nose Category: Medicine
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9. asphyxia
   <physiology> A condition caused by the inadequate intake of oxygen. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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10. asphyxia
    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
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11. Asphyxia
    `Asphyxia` (from Greek `a-`, `without` and `Ã?Æ’Ã?†Ã?…γμÃ?Å’Ã?‚` (sphygmos), `pulse, heartbeat`) is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from being unable to breathe normally. Asphyxia causes generalized hypoxia, which primarily affects the tissues and organs most sensitive to hypoxia first, such as the brain, hence resulting in cerebral hypoxia. Asphyxia is usually characterized by air hunger, but this is not alw...
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12. Asphyxia
    `Asphyxia` (from Greek `a-`, `without` and `Ã?Æ’Ã?†Ã?…γμÃ?Å’Ã?‚` (sphygmos), `pulse, heartbeat`) is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from being unable to breathe normally. Asphyxia causes generalized hypoxia, which primarily affects the tissues and organs most sensitive to hypoxia first, such as the brain, hence resulting in cerebral hypoxia. Asphyxia is usually characterized by air hunger, but this is not alw...
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13. asphyxia
    (as-fik´se-ә) pathological changes caused by lack of oxygen in respired air, resulting in a deficiency of oxygen in the blood (hypoxia) and an increase in carbon dioxide in the blood and tissues (hypercapnia). Symptoms include irregular and disturbed respirations, or a complete absence of breathing, and pallor or cyanos...
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14. Asphyxia
    • (n.) Alt. of Asphyxy
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15. asphyxia
    the failure or disturbance of the respiratory process brought about by the lack or insufficiency of oxygen in the brain. The unconsciousness that ... [3 related articles]
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16. asphyxia
    asphyxia A stopping of the pulse; pathological changes caused by lack of oxygen in respired air, resulting in hypoxia and hypercapnia.
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17. asphyxia
    Impaired or absent exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide on a ventilatory basis; combined hypercapnia and hypoxia or anoxia. [G. a- priv. + sphyz, to throb]
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