Asphyxia

//æzˈfɪksiə//

"Asphyxia" in a Sentence (3 examples)

Asphyxia may result from choking, drowning, electric shock, or injury.

The mattress platform on Davey’s bed fell unexpectedly, “trapping her neck against the upper surface of the side panel of the bed’s base,” Chipperfield explained. “Unable to free herself, she died of positional asphyxia. One of the two gas-lift pistons was defective.”

Hypoxaemia [...is] a deficient oxygenation of the blood; asphyxia from defective oxygenation of the blood.

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