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Asphyxiation is the loss of oxygen that stops breathing and can end life.
means The state of being deprived of oxygen to the point of suffocation, when breathing stops working and the body shuts down.
from Borrowed from the Greek 'asphyxia,' literally 'without pulse' — from 'a-' (without) plus 'sphyxis' (pulse, throb of the heart). Early physicians coined it thinking suffocation's main danger was a stopped pulse; they got the mechanism wrong, but the word stuck, migrating through French into English by the 18th century and later gaining the '-ation' to describe the act of causing that state.
- brain timeline
- cell damage starts within 4 minutes
- common myth
- struggle looks violent, often looks eerily still
- legal term
- covers suffocation, strangulation, and drowning alike
- first responder
- CO detectors catch it before symptoms do