Crossword clues for asphyxiation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Asphyxiation \As*phyx`i*a"tion\, n. The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1866, noun of action from asphyxiate (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 death due to lack of oxygen. 2 An acute lack of oxygen.
WordNet
n. the condition of being derprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) [syn: suffocation]
killing by depriving of oxygen [syn: suffocation]
Usage examples of "asphyxiation".
After a few minutes you die and the discomfort of asphyxiation goes away.
But there is a note here that Ben wonders if this would happen over time, threatening a crisis round of global warming, rather than asphyxiation in your living room.
Other authors had postulated massive conflagrations in the atmosphere or simple asphyxiation near the coast.
Dantra is accredited with describing asphyxiation, accompanied by great agony, in a man who, while swimming, had partially swallowed a live fish.
According to county medical records, Cynthia Moore drank liquid drain cleaner and died of esophageal hemorrhaging and asphyxiation three months after her child had died of no apparent cause.
Cynthia Moore drank liquid drain cleaner and died of esophageal hemorrhaging and asphyxiation three months after her child had died of no apparent cause.
As tetany progressed and worsened, the animal died, either out of sheer exhaustion or because the muscles that closed its larynx did so in a tight death grip so that, in effect, the animal throttled itself and died of asphyxiation.
Jonas and his team had treated victims of catastrophic stroke, cardiac arrest, asphyxiation due to tracheal obstruction, or drug overdose.
Anyway, autoerotic asphyxiation is when you choke to death doing that.
My esteemed colleague Roy Hazelwood has done a lot of research on autoerotic asphyxiation and why it so often ends in death.
Kovac said nothing, trying to imagine what he would tell Mi Bad enough to have to explain autoerotic asphyxiation to strangers, which he had done a couple of times in his career.
And that when it goes wrong, the majority of autoerotic deaths are caused by asphyxiation.
Bowie knife, or a determined teenager on his way to commit an act of autoerotic asphyxiation.
After he pulled away I went back in the house and rigged the creep so it looked like he had broken his own neck doing an autoerotic asphyxiation gig with one of his nooses.
Setting aside the possibility of death by asphyxiation, Susanna finally narrowed her suspects down to three: monkshood, cowbane, and henbane.