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Definitions
A dangerous lack of oxygen caused by blocked or impaired breathing.
Word origin
Learned borrowing from New Latin asphyxia, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσφυξία (asphuxía, “stopping of the pulse”).
Used in a sentence
“Asphyxia may result from choking, drowning, electric shock, or injury.”
“Hypoxaemia [...is] a deficient oxygenation of the blood; asphyxia from defective oxygenation of the blood.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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