anoxia

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English

WOTD – 4 April 2024

Etymology

From an- (prefix meaning ‘lacking, without’) +‎ ox- (meaning ‘oxygen’) +‎ -ia (suffix forming names of diseases).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

anoxia (usually uncountable, plural anoxias)

  1. (ecology, pathology) A condition in which a body tissue or an environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen; severe hypoxia.
    Coordinate terms: eumoxia, hyperoxia, hypoxia, normoxia, physoxia

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Translations

condition in which a body tissue or an environment is severely or totally deprived of oxygen

See also

References

  1. ^ “anoxia, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “anoxia, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -iɐ
  • Hyphenation: a‧no‧xi‧a

Noun

anoxia f (plural anoxias)

  1. (pathology) anoxia (condition in which a tissue or environment is totally deprived of oxygen)

Spanish

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈnoɡsja/
  • Rhymes: -oɡsja
  • Syllabification: a‧no‧xia

Noun

anoxia f (plural anoxias)

  1. anoxia

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