asphyxia

(as-fiks’e-ah) [Gr. a priv. + ogbges puls|. Suffocation; also suspended animation from ουΐ- focation or a deficiency of oxygen in the bloai. It is attended by a feeling of suffocation, cyanesis, and coma. a. carbon‘ica, suffocation from, the inhalation of coal-gas, water-gas, or carbon monoxid. a. liv’ida, asphyxia in which the skin is livid from the presence of carbon dioxid in the blood, but the circulation continues. local 3., suspension of vital functions in a limited part, as A proprietary antispas- Same as aspe-