Anoxia Definition

ăn-ŏksē-ə
noun
Total deprivation of oxygen.
Webster's New World

Hypoxia.

Webster's New World
Absence of oxygen.
American Heritage Medicine
A pathological deficiency of oxygen, especially hypoxia.
American Heritage Medicine

(pathology) A condition in which a tissue or environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen, severe hypoxia.

Wiktionary
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Origin of Anoxia

  • From an- + ox(ygen) + -ia.

    From Wiktionary

  • an– ox(o)– –ia

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Anoxia Sentence Examples

  • Finally, there are environmental causes following birth such as lead poisoning, anoxia, or meningitis.

  • The most direct way to test this would be to induce anoxia experimentally and ask the subject what it feels like.

  • Next, she takes up the ever popular " cerebral anoxia " argument.

  • In order to avoid anoxia (oxygen starvation ), it is vitally important that the pond is adequately oxygenated at all times.

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Words Starting With

AANANO

Words Ending With

AIAXIA

Unscrambles

anoxia

Words Starting With A and Ending With A

Starts With A & Ends With AStarts With AN & Ends With AStarts With A & Ends With IA

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With A6 Letter Words Ending With A