hypoxia – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
hypoxia
n.
lack of oxygen in the blood (Medicine)
Hypoxia
Hypoxia may refer to:
- Hypoxia (environmental), reduced oxygen content of air or a body of water detrimental to aerobic organisms
- Hypoxia (medical), a pathological condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of an adequate oxygen supply
- Autoerotic hypoxia or erotic asphyxiation, intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for sexual arousal
- Cerebral hypoxia or cerebral anoxia, a reduced supply of oxygen to the brain
- Diffusion hypoxia or Fink effect, a factor that influences the partial pressure of oxygen within the pulmonary alveolus
- Histotoxic hypoxia, the inability of cells to take up or utilize oxygen from the bloodstream
- Hypoxemic hypoxia or hypoxemia, a deficiency of oxygen in arterial blood
- Hypoxia drive, a respiratory drive in which the body uses oxygen chemoreceptors to regulate the respiratory cycle
- Hypoxic hypoxia, a result of insufficient oxygen available to the lungs
- Intrauterine hypoxia, when a fetus is deprived of an adequate supply of oxygen
- Latent hypoxia or deep water blackout, loss of consciousness on ascending from a deep freedive
- Pseudohypoxia, increased cytosolic ratio of free NADH to NAD in cells
- Tumor hypoxia, the situation where tumor cells have been deprived of oxygen
- Hypoxia in fish, responses of fish to hypoxia
hypoxia
Noun
1. a very strong drive resulting from a deficiency of available oxygen in the blood and bodily tissues (short of anoxia)
(hypernym) drive
(hyponym) anemic hypoxia
(part-holonym) asphyxia
hypoxia
n.
hypoxie, nedostatek kyslíku v krvi a tkáních
Hypoxia
Concentration of oxygen in arterial blood that is less than normal. Anoxia refers to complete lack of oxygen.
