ASPHYXIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does asphyxia mean? 

• ASPHYXIA (noun)
  The noun ASPHYXIA has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: ASPHYXIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASPHYXIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("asphyxia" is a kind of...):

physical condition; physiological condition; physiological state (the condition or state of the body or bodily functions)

Meronyms (parts of "asphyxia"):

hypoxia (oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency)

hypercapnia; hypercarbia (the physical condition of having the presence of an abnormally high level of carbon dioxide in the circulating blood)

Derivation:

asphyxiate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)

asphyxiate (impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of)

asphyxiate (deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing)

 Context examples 

A clinical scoring method to monitor fetal asphyxia using four ultrasonic observations that include fetal breathing, fetal body movements, fetal tone, and amniotic fluid volume.

(Fetal Biophysical Profile, NCI Thesaurus)