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asphyxia


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Asphyxia  \As*phyx"i*a\,  Asphyxy  \As*phyx"y\,  n.  [NL.  asphyxia, 
  fr  Gr  ?;  'a  priv.  +  ?  to  throb,  beat.]  (Med.) 
  Apparent  death,  or  suspended  animation;  the  condition  which 
  results  from  interruption  of  respiration,  as  in  suffocation 
  or  drowning,  or  the  inhalation  of  irrespirable  gases. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  asphyxia 
  n  :  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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