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Asphyxia
Meaning
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
.
●
In Medicine & Death:
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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