Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Absence of oxygen.
- n. A pathological deficiency of oxygen, especially hypoxia.
Wiktionary
- n. pathology A condition in which a tissue or environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen, severe hypoxia.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) a physiological state in which insufficient oxygen reaches the tissues of the body, especially when of sufficient severity to cause permanent damage.
WordNet 3.0
- n. severe hypoxia; absence of oxygen in inspired gases or in arterial blood or in the tissues
Etymologies
- From an- + ox(ygen) + -ia. (Wiktionary)
- an- + ox(o)- + -ia1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In the next or third group, anoxia is more profound, and CO2 retention with hypercapnea is added.”
“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.”
“I had a period of anoxia during the surgery that went unnoticed.”
“It turns out that she is handicapped — birth trauma, anoxia.”
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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.”
Consumer Reports: CPSC echoes CU’s concerns about infant sling carriers
“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.”
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: Doctor Pinpointed Oxygen as Cause of Preemies' Blindness
“(Some scientists fear that microbial decomposition of this oil will deplete oxygen, exacerbating the gulf's already problematic anoxia and dead zones.)”
The Huffington Post: Bill Chameides: Weathering the Oil Spill: Tar Balls, Streamers, and Eddies
“His eyes watered, like he was crying from shame, not anoxia.”
“The only sad note is that the real cure for people like Marco is not anoxia, but castration.”
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dbmag9 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. Dec 2, 2006