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Asphyxia vs Entrapment - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between asphyxia and entrapment

is that asphyxia is the loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia. Asphyxia can be result from choking, drowning, electric shock, injury while entrapment is the state of being entrapped.

asphyxia

English

(wikipedia asphyxia)

Noun

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  • The loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia. Asphyxia can be result from choking, drowning, electric shock, injury.
  • The 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. Such asphyxia can be result from the inhalation of non-toxic gases which displace oxygen from the inhaled air, by exposure to carbon monoxide from smoke inhalation such that hemoglobin is poisoned, or the development of methemoglobinemia.
  • (medicine) A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body leads to loss of consciousness or death. The term is now obsolete, having been replace in mid-twentieth century by the more specific terms anoxia, hypoxia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia.
  • * 1895 . Robley Dunglison and Richard J. Dunglison, ''A Dictionary of Medical Science containing a full explanation of the various subjects and terms of anatomy, physiology, medical chemistry, pharmacy, pharmacology, therapeutics, medicine, hygiene, dietetics, pathology, bacteriology, surgery, ophthalmology, otology, laryngology, dermatology, gynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics, medical jurisprudence, dentistry, etc. 21 edition:
    • Hypoxaemia [...is] a deficient oxygenation of the blood; asphyxia from defective oxygenation of the blood.

    Derived terms

    * asphyxial * asphyxiant * asphyxiate

    See also

    * suffocation * anoxia * hypoxia * anoxemia * hypoxemia * hypercapnia

    entrapment

    English

    Noun

  • The state of being entrapped.
    • The entrapment of the victims in the wreckage made rescue difficult.
  • (legal) Action by law enforcement personnel to lead an otherwise innocent person to commit a crime, in order to arrest and prosecute that person for the crime.
    • A detective asking you to buy illegal marijuana for a dying man would be police entrapment .
  • (chemistry) A method of isolating specific cells or molecules from a mixture, especially by immobilization on a gel.