Hypertext Webster Gateway: "asphyxia"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Asphyxia \As*phyx"i*a\, Asphyxy \As*phyx"y\, n. [NL. asphyxia,
fr. Gr. ?; 'a priv. + ? to throb, beat.] (Med.)
Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which
results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation
or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
asphyxia
n : a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon
dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by
choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas
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