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suffocation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suffocation \Suf`fo*ca"tion\, n. [L. suffocatio: cf. F. suffocation.] The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.
Note: The term suffocation is sometimes employed synonymously
with asphyxia. In the strict medico-legal sense it
signifies asphyxia induced by obstruction of the
respiration otherwise than by direct pressure on the
neck (hanging, strangulation) or submersion (drowning).
--Quain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Middle French suffocation, from Latin suffocationem (nominative suffocatio) "a choking, stifling," noun of action from past participle stem of suffocare "suffocate, throttle, stifle, strangle," originally "to narrow up," from sub "up (from under)" (see sub-) + fauces (plural) "throat, narrow entrance" (see faucet).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) asphyxia—a condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death. 2 (context countable English) A particular act of death or killing by means of asphyxia.
WordNet
n. killing by depriving of oxygen [syn: asphyxiation]
the condition of being derprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) [syn: asphyxiation]
Wikipedia
Suffocation is the process of Asphyxia.
Suffocation or Suffocate may also refer to:
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Suffocation (band), an American death metal band
- Suffocation (album), 2006
- "Suffocation", a song on Morbid Angel's debut album, Altars of Madness
- "Suffocation", a song on Obituary's debut album Slowly We Rot
- "Suffocation", a song on Vangelis's album See You Later
- "Suffocate", a song by the post-grunge band Finger Eleven from their 2000 album The Greyest of Blue Skies (album)
- "Suffocate", a song by the post-grunge band Cold from their 2003 album Year of the Spider
- "Suffocate", a song by the rock band Green Day from their 2002 album Shenanigans
- "Suffocate" (Feeder song), a 1998 single by Feeder
- "Suffocate" (J. Holiday song), a 2007 single by J. Holiday
- "Suffocate", a song by Mutiny Within from Mutiny Within
- "Suffocate" (King Adora song), 2001
Suffocation is an American death metal band that was formed in 1988 in Centereach, Long Island, New York, United States. The band comprises vocalist Frank Mullen, guitarists Terrance Hobbs and Charlie Errigo, drummer Eric Morotti and bassist Derek Boyer. Suffocation rose to prominence of death metal and created a blueprint for the genre for the 1990s with their 1991 debut album Effigy of the Forgotten, and have released seven studio albums since formation. The band's raw death metal style uses growled vocals with a downtuned guitar sound, fast and complex guitar riffs and drumming, open chord notes, breakdowns, and a sophisticated sense of songwriting.
Suffocation is the fifth studio album by American death metal band Suffocation. It was released in 2006 through Relapse Records. The song "Prelude to Repulsion" is a re-recording of the track of the same name on Breeding the Spawn.
Music videos were made for the songs "Abomination Reborn" and "Bind Torture Kill".
Usage examples of "suffocation".
He had ingested, the report stated succinctly, amylobarbitone, pethidine and alcohol in sufficient quantities to cause his death, although what had actually killed him was suffocation, as, after he had slid into unconsciousness, he had choked on his own vomit.
We simply lay in the bottom of the boat, which we were now physically incapable of directing, feeling like hot embers, and I fancy undergoing very much the same sensations that the poor fish do when they are dying on land -- namely, that of slow suffocation.
Then they would goif not of suffocation, then of grief and loneliness.
Perhaps he has provoked a jinnee in that young man which will one day rise up and envelop him in a cloud of political suffocation.
The Bravo ceased to adjust the disguise of his companion, and the profound stillness which succeeded his remark proved so painful to Antonio, that he felt like one reprieved from suffocation, when he heard the deep respiration that announced the relief of his companion.
The wound was of such an extent as to communicate with a bronchus, and by this means the iodin entered the respiratory tract, causing suffocation.
Krabbel mentions a patient who was run over by an empty coal car, and who died on the fifth day from suffocation due to an effusion into the right pleural cavity.
Veil waved to and fro suggestively, while Theos, his heart beating fast, watched its shining woof with straining eyes and a sense of suffocation in his throat, .
I should require a Doctor Adelmonte to invent for me some means of breathing freely and tranquillizing my mind, in the fear I have of dying some fine day of suffocation.
Those crewers, most likely, had either died of suffocation or from the impact when the Dreadnaught had slammed into the gravel pile where Outbound Flight now lay.
Such experiments may range from procedures which are practically painless, to those involving distress, exhaustion, starvation, baking, burning, suffocation, poisoning, inoculation with disease, every kind of mutilation, and long-protracted agony and death.
It was why she had come to Norvena Parva, searching for less strenuous work, not yet willing to face the pain and suffocation of returning to Troia, to her kin.
Old Jewry to suffocation: and enabled every sublapsarian, and superlapsarian, and semipelagian clergyman, to build himself a neat brick chapel, and live with some distant resemblance to the state of a gentleman.
Milligan, or the Tipperary Boy, as he was more often called, soon spread through the township, and, in consequence, by the time we faced each other in the centre of the floor, from which the furniture had been removed, as I have already described, the large room was packed to the point of suffocation, and the air was rank with the odour of stale smoke, drink, and wet clothes.
There should be no vomiting or aspiration into the lungs, though as extra precautions against choking and suffocation, Baudelio added, an airway tube would be placed in each throat and the bodies turned on their sides before the caskets were closed.