This has created the biggest ever hypoxic area, where single-celled photosynthetic algae on the water's surface starve marine life of oxygen.
Throughout the Devonian there were periods of widespread hypoxic or anoxic sedimentation (that is, sedimentary events indicated that little free oxygen or no oxygen at all was dissolved in Devonian seas).
Individuals who survive a hypoxic episode (temporary deprivation of oxygen in the brain) often sustain hippocampal damage and anterograde amnesia.
Throughout the Devonian there were periods of widespread hypoxic or anoxic sedimentation (that is, sedimentary events occurred that indicated little free oxygen or no oxygen at all was dissolved in Devonian seas).
"Everybody is laughing, giving high fives, even when someone is having a hypoxic seizure on the ground.… That can normalize it.
To get to that point, a typical day's training sees the alarm clock go off at 6.45am and, within 15 minutes, we're in the gym where we do sprints or cycling in a hypoxic chamber, which replicates altitude.
Irradiation is less effective in treating tissues that are poorly oxygenated (hypoxic) because of inadequate blood supply than it is in treating those that are well oxygenated.
Some drugs enhance the toxic effect of radiation on tumour cells, especially those that are hypoxic.
They cited medical literature showing that people sometimes become hypoxic without even realizing it, as when a pilot's cockpit depressurizes at high altitude.
Wiese mentioned that a lot of climbers in the city work on Wall Street and are "cash-rich and time-poor," and wondered whether Kotliar might donate a hypoxic chamber to the Explorers Club, for members to use.
The air coming through the mask was even more hypoxic, like the air at twenty-one thousand feet.
