"asphyxia" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-asphyxia.wav Forms: asphyxias [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin asphyxia, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσφυξία (asphuxía, “stopping of the pulse”). Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|NL.|asphyxia}} Learned borrowing from New Latin asphyxia, {{der|en|grc|ἀσφυξία||stopping of the pulse}} Ancient Greek ἀσφυξία (asphuxía, “stopping of the pulse”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} asphyxia (countable and uncountable, plural asphyxias)
  1. Loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  2. Loss of consciousness due to the body's inability to deliver oxygen to its tissues, either by the breathing of air lacking oxygen or by the inability of the blood to carry oxygen. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-asphyxia-en-noun-AWnZ7Yw3
  3. (medicine, obsolete) A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body leads to loss of consciousness or death. Replaced in the mid-20th century by the more specific terms anoxia, hypoxia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine, Death Translations (condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide): asfiksi (Albanian), اختناق [masculine] (Arabic), задушаване (zadušavane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), asfíxia [feminine] (Catalan), asfyksi [common-gender] (Danish), asfyxie [feminine] (Dutch), asfiksio (Esperanto), asfyksia (Finnish), hapenpuute (Finnish), tukehtuminen (Finnish), asphyxie [feminine] (French), asfixia [feminine] (Galician), Erstickungstod [masculine] (German), ασφυξία (asfyxía) [feminine] (Greek), fulladás (Hungarian), légzésbénulás (Hungarian), plúchadh [masculine] (Irish), asfissia [feminine] (Italian), asfiksja [feminine] (Polish), zamartwica [feminine] (Polish), asfixia [feminine] (Portuguese), асфикси́я (asfiksíja) [feminine] (Russian), уду́шье (udúšʹje) [neuter] (Russian), asfixia [feminine] (Spanish), asfyxi [common-gender] (Swedish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: acroasphyxia, asphyxial, asphyxiant, asphyxiate, asphyxiation, asphyxic, asphyxiophilia, autoasphyxia, positional asphyxia, postural asphyxia Related terms: asphyxy, anoxemia, anoxia, hypercapnia, hypoxemia, hypoxia, suffocation

Inflected forms

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    },
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      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
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      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
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      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
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        "neuter"
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    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asfíxia"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "asfyksi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asfyxie"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "word": "asfiksio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "word": "asfyksia"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "word": "hapenpuute"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "word": "tukehtuminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asphyxie"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asfixia"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Erstickungstod"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "asfyxía",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ασφυξία"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "word": "fulladás"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "word": "légzésbénulás"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "plúchadh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asfissia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asfiksja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zamartwica"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asfixia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "асфикси́я"
    },
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      "roman": "udúšʹje",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "уду́шье"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "asfixia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide",
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      ],
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    }
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  ],
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}

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