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Asphyxia—a condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death.
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"The roads were narrow... it led to suffocation.
The constriction of rationing here amounts to suffocation.
Is drowning by tsunami equal to suffocation in a gas chamber?
Intravenous fluids have been connected to tubes intended to deliver oxygen, leading to suffocation.
Secretions collect in the throat and may lead to suffocation by blocking the airway.
Most of the deaths were due to suffocation, according to reports.
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Sleep environment and positioning can be a cause of SUID and a possible (though undetected) cause of SIDS due to asphyxiation, suffocation, or entrapment (Moon & Fu, 2012).
Florida tended to attribute these deaths to accidental suffocation, California to SIDS.
This is because, many times, the cause of the infant's death is later determined to be suffocation due to a number of factors.
This continuous contraction of these two muscle types can lead to the suffocation of the affected individual due to his inability to perform normal function of breathing.
Her account is most vivid when most traumatic: a drunken Kavanaugh covering her mouth to suppress screams, causing her to fear suffocation.
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