hypoxia (redirected from fetal hypoxia)

hy·pox·i·a  (h-pks-, h-)

n.

Deficiency in the amount of oxygen reaching body tissues.

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hy·poxic adj.

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Noun

1.

hypoxia - oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency drive - a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire anemic hypoxia - hypoxia resulting from a decreased concentration of hemoglobin 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) asphyxia - a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas altitude sickness - effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudes anoxia - severe hypoxia; absence of oxygen in inspired gases or in arterial blood or in the tissues asphyxiation, suffocation - the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped); "asphyxiation is sometimes used as a form of torture"