NOUN
- severe hypoxia; absence of oxygen in inspired gases or in arterial blood or in the tissues
How To Use anoxia In A Sentence
- After only a few hours anoxia, death of previously growing tissues occurs in intolerant species; a shortage of ATP presumably being a major contributing factor.
- During the late Paleocene thermal maximum, the upwelling of low-oxygen intermediate Tethyan water into the epicontinental basin led to enhanced biological productivity and anoxia at the seafloor. Bürger and Cubasch: Are multiproxy climate reconstructions robust? « Climate Audit
- Indeed, in the absence of amylase starch is not degraded, and anoxia-intolerant cereals such as wheat and barley suffer soon from sugar starvation, and eventually die.
- It turns out that she is handicapped — birth trauma, anoxia. Shambhala SunSpace » 2009 » April
- The aim of the research reported in this paper was to investigate the metabolic responses in tissues tolerant of anoxia.
- None of the species studied was able to germinate under anoxia.
- With a failing respiratory center, and consequent abnormal shallowness of respiration, anoxia in the arterial blood is the natural result of the recumbent position.
- These guys are going to kill a lot of babies by anoxia to test a wild idea," warned grant referees for the National Institutes of Health. Doctor Pinpointed Oxygen as Cause of Preemies' Blindness
- Indeed, rice coleoptiles are one of the few plant organs that can grow under anoxia.
- Deaths and permanent neurological damage from anoxia have occurred when surgeons have unwisely performed immediate consecutive bilateral thoracoscopy rather than two separate operations.
