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Definition: Asphyxia |
AsphyxiaNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "asphyxia" was first used: 1706. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A pathological condition caused by lack of oxygen, manifested in impending or actual cessation of life. (references) |
Medicine | An inability to breathe, resulting from obstruction to air-flow at the mouth and nose. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Asphyxia is a condition of severe lack of oxygen supplied to the body. In the absence of remedial action it will very rapidly lead to unconsciousness and death. Asphyxia is the same as suffocation and anoxia.
Asphyxia is a medical emergency.
Causes of asphyxia can include:
Prolonged asphyxia can result in brain damage even when it does not cause death.
See also: hypoxia
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Asphyxia."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Death | Euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay; sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease. (disease); death blow. (killing). |
Disease | Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Asphyxia |
| English words defined with "asphyxia": Asphyctic, Asphyxial, asphyxiated, Asphyxied ♦ resuscitator ♦ suspended animation. (references) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Add asphyxia from the miasma, burial by the earth falling in, sudden settlings of the bottom. |
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Health | Birth complications including asphyxia are now estimated to account for about 6 percent of congenital cerebral palsy cases. (references) | |
Research also shows that a large proportion of babies who experience asphyxia do not grow up to have cerebral palsy or other neurological disorders. (references) | ||
However, extensive research by NINDS scientists and others has shown that very few babies who experience asphyxia during birth develop encephalopathy soon after birth. (references) | ||
Human Rights | Trinidad and Tobago | His death certificate stated that he died from asphyxia associated with multiple blunt traumatic injuries. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Asphyxia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Asphyxia" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 25 | 69,787 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "asphyxia": Asphyxia Neonatorum. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "asphyxia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | asfiksi (asphyxy, suffocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | اختناق بسبب فقدان الأكسجين. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | задушаване (asphyxy, stifling, stranglehold, strangulation, suffocation), асфикция. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 昏厥. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | asfyxie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | asphyxia,asfyksi, asphyxi, asfyxi, skindoed, kvælning (strangulation, suffocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | asphyxie, asphyxia, Asfyxie, Uitdoven (extinguish, put out), schijndood (asphyxia neonatorum, new-born asphyxia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | خفگی , خناق (Croup), اختناق (Choke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | asfyksia, tukahtuminen, hengitysvajaus (respiratory failure), hapenpuutetila. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | asphyxie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Erstickungstod. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασφυξία (asphyxiation, choking, suffocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ש ק (suffocation), ח ק (garrote, strangulation, suffocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fulladás (asphyxiation, asphyxy, choking, drowning, smothering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | asfissia (asphyxiation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | plooghey (asthma, choke, choking, congest, congestion, cushion, fugginess, glut, inundate, inundation, muffle, restrain, smother, smothering, stifle, suffocate, suffocation, tamp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asphyxiaay asfixia (apnea, asphyxy, choke, suffocation). (various references) asfixie (suffocation), sufocare (suffocation). (various references) удушье (asphyxy, asthma, oppression, suffocation). (various references) zagušenje (asphyxiation, asphyxy). (various references) asfixia (asphyxiation, suffocation). (various references) kvävning (asphyxy, choke, suffocation). (various references) asfeksi, oksijensizlikten boğulma, nefes kesilmesi, boğulma (asphyxiation, strangulation, suffocation). (various references) ядуха (asthma, choke, stifle, suffocation), асфіксія. (various references) trạng thái ngạt (asphyxy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | asphyxia. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "asphyxia": asphyxias, asphyxiate, asphyxiated, asphyxiates, asphyxiating, asphyxiation, asphyxiations. (additional references) | |
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"Asphyxia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asphysxia, asphyxiant, Euphylia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-h-i-p-s-x-y" | |
-3 letters: aphis, apish, ayahs, hapax, paisa, pasha, pyxis, spahi. | |
-4 letters: aahs, ashy, axis, ayah, haps, hasp, hays, hips, hyps, pash, pays, phis, pias, pish, pixy, pyas, shay, ship, spay, syph, yaps, yips. | |
-5 letters: aah, aas, aha, ais, ash, asp, ays, hap, has, hay, hip, his, hyp, pah, pas, pax, pay, phi, pia, pis, pix. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-h-i-p-s-x-y" | |
+1 letter: asphyxias. | |
+2 letters: asphyxiate. | |
+3 letters: anaphylaxis, asphyxiated, asphyxiates. | |
+4 letters: asphyxiating, asphyxiation. | |
+5 letters: asphyxiations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 73 70 68 79 78 69 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ... .--. .... -.--. -..- .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110011 01110000 01101000 01111001 01111000 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A s p h y x i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0073 0070 0068 0079 0078 0069 0061 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3585827491907567 |
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