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desi | asphyxia |

As a verb desi

is .

As a noun 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.

desi

English

(Desi)

Alternative forms

* desi

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to the culture, people, or products of India; Indian.

    • Usage notes

    * For South Asians abroad, it has become a term that mainly identifies other fellow Indians. *: e.g. : Desi food refers to South Asian food like rice, daal, chappati etc. * Desi dance can refer to the popular dances in the movies to Punjabi dance, bhangra to classical dances like Bharathnatya, Kuchipudi etc.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A member of the South Asian diaspora.
  • * 2011 August, Shagorika Easwar, "Hello ji!" (editor's column), Desi News (Canada), vol. 15, issue 8, p. 8:
    • Desis from the United States have an accent; those from Canada, another.

    Anagrams

    *

    asphyxia

    English

    (wikipedia asphyxia)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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