Crossword-Solution: ASPHYXIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Asphyxia | n. | Alt. of Asphyxy |
We have 3 clues for the answer “ASPHYXIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Deprivation of oxygen | 1 answer |
| Garroting e.g. | 1 answer |
| Suffocation | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASPHYXIA (5)
The Ephemerides records a birth as having occurred during asphyxia, and also one during an epileptic attack.
Gardane speaks of metastasis to the lungs, and there is another case on record in which this phenomenon caused asphyxia.
Schenck details the history of a case in which the pulse ceased for three days and asphyxia was almost total, but the patient eventually recovered.
Instances of recovery after asphyxia from hanging are to be found, particularly among the older references of a time when hanging was more common than it is to-day.
Further attempts at extraction were dangerous and quite likely to fail; his symptoms were distressing, he could not hold his head erect without the most agonizing pain and he was almost prostrated from fright and asphyxia; it was thought advisable to push the fish into the stomach, and after an impaction of sixteen hours the symptoms were relieved.
Quotes with ASPHYXIA (2)
So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century — the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light — are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the worl…
On re-entering cultivated lands, the agitation, perplexity, and turmoil of civilization oppressed and suffocated us; the air seemed to fail us, and we felt every moment as if about to die of asphyxia.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1998).