hypoxia

Noun
  1. Oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency (synset 114064738)
    is a type of: drive - a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
    subtypes:
    • 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)
    • 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)
    is a part of: 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

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