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Asphyxia

noun
1.
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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"Asphyxia" Quotes from Famous Books



... huffy, and smoky, and stuffy, And pokey, and chokey, and black as my hat. As wooer he's dull, for his breath smells of sulphur; Asphyxia incarnate, and horrid at that! You cannot see beauty in one who's so sooty, So dusty, and dingy, and dismal, and dark. He's feeble and footy; 'tis plainly your duty To "chuck" the Old Flame, and take on the Young Spark. A Cyclops for lover, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, November 15, 1890 • Various
... other. And the real misery is not to do this. The hell of the old world's literature is to be taxed beyond one's powers. This country has expressed in story—I suppose because it has experienced it in life—a deeper abyss of intellectual asphyxia or vital ennui, when powers conscious of themselves are ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various


Words linked to "Asphyxia" :   hypercarbia, physiological state, hypoxia, hypercapnia, physiological condition, physical condition


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