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What is the noun for asphyxiated?

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asphyxia
  1. The loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia. Asphyxia can be result from choking, drowning, electric shock, injury.
  2. The 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. Such asphyxia can be result from the inhalation of non-toxic gases which displace oxygen from the inhaled air, by exposure to carbon monoxide from smoke inhalation such that hemoglobin is poisoned, or the development of methemoglobinemia.
  3. (medicine) A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body leads to loss of consciousness or death. The term is now obsolete, having been replace in mid-twentieth century by the more specific terms anoxia, hypoxia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “These babies are malnourished and are prone to asphyxia before and during labour.”
      “They were transferred to our neonatal intensive care unit with a presumptive diagnosis of perinatal asphyxia.”
      “The reported cause of death was cardiorespiratory arrest caused by asphyxia as a result of strangulation and aspiration of gastric contents.”
asphyxiation
  1. Death due to lack of oxygen.
  2. An acute lack of oxygen.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The man who's sleeping upstairs is overcome by the smoke and dies of asphyxiation.”
      “Some pepper-sprayed victims with asthma or bronchitis have died from asphyxiation.”
      “Airway maintenance is vital because the primary mechanism of death is asphyxiation, not exsanguination.”
asphyxiophilia
asphyxy
  1. (medicine) asphyxiation, typically resulting in death; asphyxia
asphyxiator
  1. One who or that which asphyxiates.
asphyxiant
asphyxiations
asphyxiators
  1. plural of asphyxiator
asphyxiants
asphyxias
asphyxies
  1. plural of asphyxy
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