n
A form of strangulation that compresses the upper airway (trachea, larynx or laryngopharynx), hence interfering with breathing and leading to asphyxia.
adj
Resisting poison or venom.
adj
(medicine) Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic.
n
A form of strangulation that compresses the carotid arteries, the jugular veins, or both without compressing the airway, hence leading to cerebral ischemia and a temporary hypoxic condition.
adj
(medicine) Checking evacuations through astringent or styptic qualities.
adj
Having been unable to breathe due to airway obstruction (choking) or strangulation, but usually to the point of pain and discomfort without death.
n
A medical condition characterized by major shock and renal failure after a crushing injury to skeletal muscle.
adj
From which chirps have been removed
adj
Of or pertaining to egestion.
adj
Of or pertaining to ejaculation.
n
(archaic) A disease which causes diarrhea, especially dysentery.
n
Poisoning by noxious gas.
n
(pathology) A small and frequent cough, usually short and dry; a broken cough with a rough and loud sound; a hacking cough.
n
(uncountable) A disease of the nictitating membrane.
n
orthostatic hypotension, due to low blood pressure, for example when standing up suddenly.
n
(obsolete, chiefly medicine) Viscosity, thickness (chiefly of blood).
adj
(in combination) Having (or having the characteristics associated with) a specified form of liver
n
Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
n
(computing) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.
n
The production of excessive tissue during the healing of a wound
n
(medicine) hyperventilation
adj
Reducing or eliminating pain.
n
(informal) Abdominal distension in bodybuilders, resulting from the abuse of human growth hormone or insulin.
n
A medical instrument for therapeutic or diagnostic percussion.
n
(obsolete) That which conveys contagion or infection.
n
(medicine, nursing) Synonym of pressure ulcer.
n
(dated) Synonym of pressure ulcer.
n
(medicine) Abbreviation of pain. [(countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.]
n
The situation where the body experiences a negative g-force sufficient to cause a blood flow from the lower parts of the body to the head.
n
Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.
n
(medicine) Circulatory shock, a medical emergency characterized by the inability of the circulatory system to supply enough oxygen to meet tissue requirements.
adj
That strangles, or gives a sensation of strangling.
v
(medicine) Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a stroke (noun sense 4).
n
Sudden death by cardiac arrest as a result of using inhalants.
adj
Having died as a result of suffocation.
n
A temporary cessation of breathing and consciousness resembling death; often the result of asphyxia.
n
Fainting as a result of the body being held upright without any movement for a period of time, with the risk of death from cerebral hypoxia.
adj
Relating to a vacuum or void.
adj
(medicine, pharmacology) Inducing vomiting
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