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asphyxiation
/æsfɪksiˈeɪʃən/
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What does asphyxiation mean?
noun
- Death due to lack of oxygen.
- An acute lack of oxygen.
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/æsfɪksiˈeɪʃən/
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Is it without knowledge of the effects that the sloe-weevil builds a ventilating chimney to prevent the asphyxiation of her larva?
It is obvious, if there be any logic in things, that a grub so well-protected against asphyxiation by drowning must frequent liquid surroundings.
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Such an effect must be avoided, since it would endanger the life of the child by asphyxiation as well as exhaust the mother.
Toward the middle of the day many of the weaker commenced to succumb and within an hour the people of Barsoom were sinking by thousands into the unconsciousness which precedes death by asphyxiation.
Dantra is accredited with describing asphyxiation, accompanied by great agony, in a man who, while swimming, had partially swallowed a live fish.