Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Absence of oxygen.
- noun A pathological deficiency of oxygen, especially hypoxia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) a physiological state in which insufficient oxygen reaches the tissues of the body, especially when of sufficient severity to cause permanent damage.
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- noun pathology A condition in which a tissue or environment is severely or totally deprived of
oxygen , severehypoxia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun severe hypoxia; absence of oxygen in inspired gases or in arterial blood or in the tissues
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the next or third group, anoxia is more profound, and CO2 retention with hypercapnea is added.
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The principal factors inducing right ventricular strain, hypertrophy, and failure can be stated very simply: (1) pulmonary hypertension, from one cause or another; and (2) secondary influences throwing a burden on the right heart, such as anoxia, increased blood volume, polycythemia, increased cardiac output, disordered breathing mechanics.
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I had a period of anoxia during the surgery that went unnoticed.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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It turns out that she is handicapped — birth trauma, anoxia.
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It turns out that she is handicapped — birth trauma, anoxia.
Shambhala SunSpace » John Tarrant – Escape Arts in Delusionville 2009
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I had a period of anoxia during the surgery that went unnoticed.
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The CPSC knows of three infants who died in these slings in 2009: A 7-week-old infant in Philadelphia; a 6-day-old infant from Salem, OR; and a 3-month-old infant in Cincinnati all died of anoxia, or lack of oxygen, after being carried in an Infantino SlingRider.
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According to government investigators, two newborns died from anoxia, or lack of oxygen, while their mothers carried them in Infantino slings.
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"These guys are going to kill a lot of babies by anoxia to test a wild idea," warned grant referees for the National Institutes of Health.
Doctor Pinpointed Oxygen as Cause of Preemies' Blindness Stephen Miller 2010
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According to government investigators, two newborns died from anoxia, or lack of oxygen, while their mothers carried them in Infantino slings.
dbmag9 commented on the word anoxia
Oxygen is brought into our blood via the lungs, whence it rides the blood to our every extremity. It is vital for aerobic respiration, which produces energy from oxygen and glucose. Without it we expect to simply feel weak, to collapse and, if the process comes to its conclusion, die. But instead we are treated to the ultimate in virtual reality: out-of-body experiences, visions of light, giddiness and extasy. We may recover and find that we have found God. Or we may fail to recover and find Him anyway.
December 3, 2006