Asphyxia may result from choking, drowning, electric shock, or injury.
Source: wiktionary
Asphyxia
//æzˈfɪksiə//
Synonyms for "asphyxia" (11 found)
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29 translations across 23 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- asfiksi noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Arabic
1 entries- اختناق noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- asfiksiya noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
- boğulma noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Bulgarian
1 entries- задушаване noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Catalan
1 entries- asfíxia noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Danish
1 entries- asfyksi noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Dutch
1 entries- asfyxie noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Esperanto
1 entries- asfiksio noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Finnish
3 entries- asfyksia noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
- hapenpuute noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
- tukehtuminen noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
French
1 entries- asphyxie noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Galician
1 entries- asfixia noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
German
1 entries- Erstickungstod noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Greek
1 entries- ασφυξία noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Hungarian
2 entries- fulladás noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
- légzésbénulás noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Indonesian
1 entries- asfiksia noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Irish
1 entries- plúchadh noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Italian
1 entries- asfissia noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Polish
2 entries- asfiksja noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
- zamartwica noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Portuguese
1 entries- asfixia noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Russian
2 entries- асфикси́я noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
- уду́шье noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Spanish
1 entries- asfixia noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Swedish
1 entries- asfyxi noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Urdu
1 entries- اختناق noun (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide)
Sample sentences
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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.”
Source: wiktionary
Hypoxaemia [...is] a deficient oxygenation of the blood; asphyxia from defective oxygenation of the blood.
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