- asphyxia - a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas
--1 is a kind of physiological state, physiological condition
--1 has parts: hypoxia; hypercapnia, hypercarbiaDerived forms: verb asphyxiate2, verb asphyxiate1, verb asphyxiate3