Definitions
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- noun (Med.) An abnormal condition due to deficient aëration of the blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness.
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- noun medicine
Critical lack ofoxygen in blood; severehypoxaemia .
Etymologies
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a- + oxy- + -aemia, from Ancient Greek: ἀν- (an‐, "absence of") with ὀξύς (oxus, "sharp") and αἷμα (aima, "blood").
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Examples
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February 1922, Professor Macleod abandoned his work on anoxaemia and turned his whole laboratory staff on the investigation of the physiological properties of what is now known as insulin.
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