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asphyxiaSuffocation; a lack of oxygen that produces a potentially lethal build-up of carbon dioxide waste in the tissues. Asphyxia may arise from any one of a number of causes, including inhalation of smoke or poisonous gases, obstruction of the windpipe (by water, food, vomit, or a foreign object), strangulation, or smothering. If it is not quickly relieved, brain damage or death ensues. |
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At a reception in honor of Professor Blake and his new bride, the dean asphyxiates while offering a toast to the couple. So it goes for sixteen instances--car by car, and over a thousand words--before, in the Dantesque circumstance of the Objectivist contrapasso, every Jack and Jane of the mean-spirited wretches painfully asphyxiates. All atmospheric toxins, asphyxiates or potentially explosive gases are to be listed on the material safety data sheets required for permit spaces by the regulation. |
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