anoxia

• The symptoms of anoxia, or oxygen want, began to appear. —  177 - The Angry Canary
• He saw a "kind of light against a blue background," perhaps owing to anoxia--lack of oxygen to the brain. —  Omni: June 1993
• There is no warning to anoxia, simply a slide into unconsciousness then death. —  a transatlantic tunnel, hurrah
• The clues now seem to indicate the crew died of anoxia, a lack of oxygen, and didn't drown. —  Kentucky.com: Homepage
• Re #155 steve, there is increasing evidence that the major extinctions of the past several hundreds of millions of years are associated with long lived events following major tectonic disturbances that result in release of greenhouse gases, with associated global warming, ocean anoxia etc. —  RealClimate

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