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

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asphyxia

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Source Word

asphyxia

Noun

countable uncountable obsolete

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

Japanese Meaning

呼吸が遮断され、酸素不足を引き起こすことによって意識を失う状態

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The rescue team treated the child for asphyxia after he became trapped under the collapsed ceiling.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

救助隊は、倒壊した天井の下に閉じ込められて窒息した子どもを治療した。

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Sense（1）

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

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

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Sense（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.

Sense（3）

(medicine, obsolete) 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.