Definitions
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- adjective (Med.) of, pertaining to, or suffering from, anoxia.
- adjective greatly deficient in, or totally lacking, oxygen.
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- adjective Suffering from a
reduced supply ofoxygen . - adjective Lacking
oxygen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or marked by a severe deficiency of oxygen in tissues or organs
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Examples
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Newly developing ocean basins, formed by plate tectonics and continental rifting, provide just the right conditions for rapid burial in anoxic waters.
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It's called anoxic depolarization and it primarily results from the brain getting insufficient blood and oxygen after a stroke, says Dr. Sergei Kirov, neuroscientist in the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Dr. Sergei Kirov, a neuroscientist in the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies, has revealed that it is called anoxic depolarisation, and it primarily results from the brain getting insufficient blood and oxygen after a stroke.
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Michail Yakimov, of the Institute of the Coastal Marine Environment, Messina, Italy, and his team that studies lakes of concentrated salt solution, known as anoxic hypersaline basins, on the floor of the Mediterranean, has discovered extremely diverse microbial communities on the surfaces of such lakes.
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His team studies lakes of concentrated salt solution, known as anoxic hypersaline basins, on the floor of the Mediterranean.
Lockergnome 2008
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And all of those were patients who had suffered traumatic brain injury, not "anoxic" brain injury caused by a lack of oxygen from, say, cardiac arrest.
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And all of those were patients who had suffered traumatic brain injury, not "anoxic" brain injury caused by a lack of oxygen from, say, cardiac arrest.
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And all of those were patients who had suffered traumatic brain injury, not "anoxic" brain injury caused by a lack of oxygen from, say, cardiac arrest.
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And all of those were patients who had suffered traumatic brain injury, not "anoxic" brain injury caused by a lack of oxygen from, say, cardiac arrest.
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And all of those were patients who had suffered traumatic brain injury, not "anoxic" brain injury caused by a lack of oxygen from, say, cardiac arrest.
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