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Asphyxy   Listen
noun
Asphyxy, Asphyxia  n.  (Med.) 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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Asphyxy" Quotes from Famous Books



... checked, and the wreck did not fall with the accelerating swiftness of bodies influenced solely by gravitation; and if it was death to the survivors of the "Albatross" from their being hurled into the sea, it was not death by asphyxia amid air which the rapidity of descent ...
— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne



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