suffocation

How To Use suffocation In A Sentence

• By offering protection, not suffocation, Europe could set an example for the world in the best way to foster digital innovation.
• It also banned the practice of transporting pepper-sprayed suspects in a prone position, saying the practice could contribute to suffocation.
• But if the bowels are loose, with bilious discharges, tormina, vomitings, a feeling of suffocation, and gnawing pains, it is best to enjoin repose, and to drink hydromel, and avoid vomiting. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
• The playwright contrasts the suffocation of village society with the vastness of the sea that both creates and destroys.
• The most severe allergic reaction, anaphylactic shock, can kill through suffocation.
• Its especial sphere of usefulness is in severe cases of electric shock, hanging, smoke asphyxia, strangulation, suffocation, thoracic or abdominal pressure, apnea, acute traumatic pneumothorax, respiratory arrest from absence of sufficient oxygen, or apnea from the presence of quantities of irrespirable or irritant gases. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
• The sesamoides purges upwards when pounded in oxymel to the amount of a drachm and a half, and drunk; it is combined with the hellebores, to the amount of the third part, and thus it is less apt to produce suffocation. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
• Why had I not seen that all Buddy's foolery, his flatulence, his stumbles, his bad memory, and his popeyed look of suffocation signified that he had only days left? Beard
• And when I see a whole silent, solemn drawing-room full of idiots sitting with their hands on each other's foreheads "communing," I tug the white hairs from my head and curse till my asthma brings me the blessed relief of suffocation. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875)
• The majority of these deaths resulted from suffocation or strangulation caused by entrapment of the child's head in various structures of the bed.