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anoxhaemia

anoxhaemia is the alternative form of anoxaemia.

Meaning of anoxaemia

Noun

anoxaemia (usually uncountable, plural anoxaemias)

  1. (usually) Critical lack of oxygen in blood; severe hypoxaemia.
    • Anoxaemia [... is] a term introduced by Jourdanet to indicate the diminished quantity of oxygen contained in the blood of those living at high altitudes, where the tension of the oxygen in the surrounding air is considerably decreased.1881, Henry Power, Leonard W. Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences (Based on Maye's Lexicon), volume I

Forms of anoxhaemia

pluralanoxhaemias

Questions about anoxhaemia

What is anoxhaemia the alternative form of?
Anoxhaemia is the alternative form of anoxaemia.

Words near anoxhaemia in the dictionary

  1. anoxaemias
  2. anoxaemic
  3. anoxemia
  4. anoxemias
  5. anoxemic
  6. anoxhaemia
  7. anoxhaemias
  8. anoxhemia
  9. anoxhæmia
  10. anoxia
  11. anoxias

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