asphyxia

FREQ #47017

n. 窒息 [医] 窒息; 无脉, 绝脉(旧名)

发音

US /æzˈfɪksiə/

词形变化

asphyxias 复数 asphyxias

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia.

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    Asphyxia may result from choking, drowning, electric shock, or injury.

  2. 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.

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  3. 3.

    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.

    可数 废旧 不可数 医学

词汇关系

名词

部分词 3

hypoxia hypercapnia hypercarbia

相关短语

positional asphyxia postural asphyxia

词源

Learned borrowing from New Latin asphyxia, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσφυξία (asphuxía, “stopping of the pulse”).

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