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Loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Asphyxia may result from choking, drowning, electric shock, or injury.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Loss of consciousness due to the body's inability to deliver oxygen to its tissues, either by the breathing of air lacking oxygen or by the inability of the blood to carry oxygen.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body leads to loss of consciousness or death. Replaced in the mid-20th century by the more specific terms anoxia, hypoxia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: physical condition, physiological state, physiological condition
Learned borrowing from New Latin asphyxia, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσφυξία (asphuxía, “stopping of the pulse”).
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
asfiksi
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Arabic:
اختناق
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Azerbaijani:
asfiksiya
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Azerbaijani:
boğulma
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Bulgarian:
задушаване
(zadušavane)
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Catalan:
asfíxia
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Chinese Mandarin:
窒息
(zhìxī)
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Danish:
asfyksi
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Dutch:
asfyxie
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Esperanto:
asfiksio
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Finnish:
asfyksia
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Finnish:
hapenpuute
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Finnish:
tukehtuminen
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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French:
asphyxie
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Galician:
asfixia
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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German:
Erstickungstod
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Greek:
ασφυξία
(asfyxía)
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Hungarian:
fulladás
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Hungarian:
légzésbénulás
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Indonesian:
asfiksia
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Irish:
plúchadh
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Italian:
asfissia
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Polish:
asfiksja
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Polish:
zamartwica
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Portuguese:
asfixia
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Russian:
асфикси́я
(asfiksíja)
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Russian:
уду́шье
(udúšʹje)
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Spanish:
asfixia
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Swedish:
asfyxi
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
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Urdu:
اختناق
(ixtināq)
— condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide
