Asphyxia is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ASPHYXIA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• stoppage of vital functions due to lack of oxygen, also ASPHYXY
• a condition arising when the body is deprived of oxygen, causing unconsciousness or death; suffocation.
• Alt. of Asphyxy
• 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
• suffocation
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• unconsciousness caused by lack of oxygen

Words related to ASPHYXIA

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Words that contain ASPHYXIA

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How to use ASPHYXIA in a sentence

• I thought I had been seized with asphyxia, and that I should experience no more, as death would come unless we speedily descended.
• The first sensation to return to me was a sort of repetition of the asphyxia.
• If the supply of air be cut off, they resist asphyxia and take the oxygen that they require from the compounds that surround them.
• Patient may die within a few hours from asphyxia or from exhaustion.
• The carbonic-acid gas, which is still proceeding from the burning charcoal, enters the room, and produces asphyxia, or at all events some of its symptoms.
• Asphyxia was threatening in this narrow space, reduced every moment, in a medium already saturated with carbonic acid.
• But it was asphyxia, it was immediate death, if the result of this last attempt should prove fruitless.
• Horrible leaps were made by those living creatures, who struggled against asphyxia.
• In these conditions, it seems that a man would have some chance of escaping the double asphyxia, even in descending the cataracts of a Niagara.
• He breathes comfortably an atmosphere which would give a healthy man asphyxia.
• It was while going afoot to South Asphyxia, the home of my childhood, that I found both my parents on their way to the Hill.

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