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   asphyxy
   <medicine> Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases. ... Origin: NL. Asphyxia, fr. Gr.; priv. + to throb, beat. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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   Asphyxy
   • (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.
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   Asphyxy
   A temporary suspension of the motion of the heart and arteries; swooning, fainting. This term includes persons who have been asphyxiated by submersion or drowning; by breathing mephitic gas; by the effect of lightning; by the effect of cold; by heat; by suspension or strangulation. In a legal point ...
   Found op http://www.lectlaw.com/def/a212.htm
   
   

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