English-Portuguese translations for asphyxia

• asfixia
  Além disso, a asfixia económica e humana não é a forma adequada de solucionar o conflito, e uma política deste tipo apenas contribui para reforçar os extremistas de ambos os lados. Furthermore, economic and human asphyxia is not the way to resolve the conflict and a policy of this type only serves to reinforce the extremists on both sides.

Definition of asphyxia

• Loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia
• Loss of consciousness due to the body's inability to deliver oxygen to its tissues, either by the breathing of air lacking oxygen or by the inability of the blood to carry oxygen

Examples

• Asphyxia may result from choking, drowning, electric shock, or injury.

Related words

• asphyxiate
• asphyxiating
• asphyxiation
• asphyxiant
• acroasphyxia
• erotic asphyxiation