[
UK
/ɐsfˈɪksiə/
]
NOUN
- 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
How To Use asphyxia In A Sentence
- The foraging bee, if alive after its visit to the beautiful white flowers of almonds, for example, laden with invisible spheres of asphyxiating gas, would be bringing back to its home pollen and nectar mixed with parathion. Honeybees in Danger
- She also had asphyxia due to strangulation; the hyoid bone directly under the bruising was fractured.
- It appears that some of these had rotted and produced a lethal gas which asphyxiated the crew members.
- Desdemona's remarkable, if temporary, recovery from asphyxiation is the most counterfactual thing in the play. Winters Tale follow-up
- Vomiting while unconscious can lead to death by asphyxiation.
- The remaining cases included asphyxia, aspiration, sepsis, and unknown cause.
- The effect of the chemicals in the bean is to cause a powerful sedative action on the spinal chord which brings on paralysis of the lower limbs and death by asphyxia, and in larger doses by paralysis of the heart.
- We all know someone who's very closeness can almost asphyxiate us right?
- Steve was a good friend I lost last year; he asphyxiated and/or drowned at Soda Springs up in Napa.
- asphyxiating gasses
