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anoxia
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Wikipedia
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Anoxia is a genus of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae .
WordNet
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n. severe hypoxia; absence of oxygen in inspired gases or in arterial blood or in the tissues
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A condition in which a tissue or environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen, severe hypoxia.
Usage examples of anoxia.
Her heart sank even further when she realized that the prolonged anoxia had caused a severe metabolic acidosis as well.
Your heart rapidly goes into anoxia, essentially a massive induced heart attack.
But he was slowing and weakening drastically, once again losing the urge to breathe, a symptom of anoxia, of oxygen starvation.
Of course it was impossible to take her helmet off, even momentarily, without risking a collapse from anoxia, because of the depleted airnot to mention deafness.
They found that as death approaches and anoxia sets in there's massive presynaptic activity in the CNS: the dying axons release huge amounts of chemically encoded data into the cerebro-spinal fluid.
Mandrake says the lights and tunnel vision produced during anoxia experiments are completely unlike the ones his patients describe.