asphyxia
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Noun (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 gasType of physical condition, physiological stateParts hypoxia, hypercapnia
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
As·phyx′i·a (…), As·phyx′y (…) noun
Origin: NL. asphyxia, fr. Gr. …; ἀ priv. + … to throb, beat.
Medicine Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of poisonous or irrespirable gases.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54