Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to asphyxia; resulting from or indicating asphyxia: as, asphyxial symptoms.

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  • adjective Of or relating to asphyxia.

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  • adjective Of or relating to asphyxia.

Etymologies

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asphyxia +‎ -al

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Examples

  • Three offenders self-reported involvement in sexual asphyxial practices from age 12 through adulthood.

    Sexual Homicide Robert K. Ressler 1992

  • Three offenders self-reported involvement in sexual asphyxial practices from age 12 through adulthood.

    Sexual Homicide Robert K. Ressler 1992

  • This asphyxial hyperglycaemia, however, was found to disappear within four days2, nor while it lasted was it so pronounced as in the isletectomized fish.

    John Macleod - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • So far we have been unable to demonstrate any very potent influence of insulin on the blood sugar of normal fish, although there is some indication that it can retard the development of asphyxial hyperglycaemia.

    John Macleod - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • In the recently published Total Body Hypothermia for Neonatal Encephalopathy Trial (TOBY) regarding the use of hypothermia to treat perinatal asphyxial encephalopathy by Azzopardi and colleagues (Oct. 1 issue) ,1 the primary outcome was a composite of death or severe neurodevelopmental disability in survivors at 18 months of age, the same primary outcome as was studied in our National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • In the recently published Total Body Hypothermia for Neonatal Encephalopathy Trial (TOBY) regarding the use of hypothermia to treat perinatal asphyxial encephalopathy by Azzopardi and colleagues (Oct. 1 issue) ,1 the primary outcome was a composite of death or severe neurodevelopmental disability in survivors at 18 months of age, the same primary outcome as was studied in our National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • However, things went too far during one of the couple's asphyxial trysts in early 2007.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Kirk Makin 2010

  • The authors mention only central cortical and subcortical structures involved in arousal mechanisms, without referring to peripheral arterial chemoreceptors as the carotid body, the role of which in arousal from asphyxial events is widely accepted.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • The authors mention only central cortical and subcortical structures involved in arousal mechanisms, without referring to peripheral arterial chemoreceptors as the carotid body, the role of which in arousal from asphyxial events is widely accepted.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

  • The authors mention only central cortical and subcortical structures involved in arousal mechanisms, without referring to peripheral arterial chemoreceptors as the carotid body, the role of which in arousal from asphyxial events is widely accepted.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

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