Asphyxia vs. Choking

Asphyxianoun

Loss of consciousness due to the interruption of breathing and consequent anoxia.

Asphyxianoun

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.

Asphyxianoun

A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body leads to loss of consciousness or death. Replaced in the mid-20th century by the more specific terms anoxia, hypoxia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia.

Asphyxianoun

Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of poisonous or irrespirable gases.

Asphyxianoun

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

Asphyxia

Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing. An example of asphyxia is choking.

Chokingnoun

The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.

Chokingnoun

The act of coughing when a foreign object (i.e. food, beverages) becomes lodged in a person's airway.

Chokingverb

present participle of choke

Chokingadjective

That chokes; producing the feeling of strangulation.

Chokingadjective

Indistinct in utterance, as the voice of a person affected with strong emotion.

Chokingnoun

a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx)

Chokingnoun

the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe;

Choking

Choking occurs when breathing is impeded by a constricted or obstructed throat or windpipe. In some cases, the airflow is completely blocked, and in other cases, insufficient air passes through to the lungs, resulting in oxygen deprivation.