Meaning | oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency. |
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Part of | asphyxia | A condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis |
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Narrower | altitude sickness | Effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudes |
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anemic hypoxia | hypoxia resulting from a decreased concentration of hemoglobin |
anoxia | severe hypoxia |
hypoxic hypoxia | hypoxia resulting from defective oxygenation of the blood in the lungs |
ischemic hypoxia, stagnant hypoxia | hypoxia resulting from slow peripheral circulation (such as follows congestive cardiac failure) |
suffocation, asphyxiation | The condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped) |
Broader | drive | A physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire |
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Spanish | hipoxia |
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Catalan | hipòxia |
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