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English
Etymology
From an- + oxy- + -biosis.
Noun
anoxybiosis (uncountable)
- (physiology) A biological response triggered by a lack of oxygen in which an organism takes in water and becomes turgid and immobile; possibly a form of cryptobiosis.
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