hypoxic

About 0.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of, pertaining to, or suffering from hypoxia.

   Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had left her hypoxic and wheezing.

2. adjective Describing a breathing gas mixture that contains less than 21% oxygen.

   Rarely, nitrox mixtures are intentionally hypoxic, under special conditions.

3. adjective Exhibiting hypoxia.

   Dead zones are hypoxic areas in the world's oceans and large lakes.

Similar words

anaerobic radiosensitizer chronically hypoxemic hypoxial hyperoxic pseudohypoxic anoxaemic hypoperfusional apnoeal

Often followed by

conditions pulmonary cells and ventilatory drive cell vasoconstriction hypoxia