What's the difference between asphyxia and drown?

Asphyxia


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Asphyxy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Multivariate analysis of high risk factors associated with increased risk of asphyxia showed that low birth weight was the most significant predictor of asphyxia: asphyxia occurred in 68% of infants of less than 1,000 g birth weight and decreased to 1.2% in infants of 3-4 kg birth weight.
  • (2) Indications for the correction of acidosis in asphyxia are proposed.
  • (3) After the completion of rejection reaction, inflammation finally induced scarring or necrosis of the tracheal allograft, resulting in asphyxia or perforation.
  • (4) Malformation was the principal cause of death in 28 cases, antepartum haemorrhage in 19, hypertension in 25, and asphyxia in 35.
  • (5) Although true in asphyxia, breathing activates lung mechanoreceptors which reduce vagal outflow and apparently, in humans, abolishes sympathetic vasomotor activity (SNA).
  • (6) Similar responses were seen during asphyxia plus isoflurane-oxygen.
  • (7) Sixteen newborn infants with severe asphyxia were prospectively studied for evidence of secondary myocardial damage and, in that case, their clinical findings.
  • (8) Since some of these patients closely resembled cases of idiopathic torsion dystonia, the prior occurrence of asphyxia should be used as a criterion of exclusion for that diagnosis.
  • (9) The chart is based on the pathophysiological changes that occur in perinatal asphyxia, directing the user to the appropriate manoeuvres required to correct those changes, depending on the degree of asphyxia which is determined by clinical signs and by use of the Apgar score.
  • (10) Twenty-one neonates of over 36 weeks' gestation suffered perinatal asphyxia but not chronic hypoxia.
  • (11) In the control group, asphyxia after CAO produced cardiorespiratory failure in every animal in less than 6 minutes.
  • (12) We conclude that reduced blood flow to the fetal skin after repeated episodes of asphyxia indicates circulatory redistribution, which can be detected by transcutaneous PO2 measurements.
  • (13) Birth asphyxia was the commonest aetiological factor (30%).
  • (14) The effects of 3 hours of controlled intrauterine asphyxia (acidotic hypoxia) on the sedimentation patterns of cerebral polyribosomes and on polyribosome supported in vitro protein synthesis were examined in 16 term monkey fetuses.
  • (15) Blood samples drawn in single cases before, during, and after recovery from bradycardia identified an associated increase in asphyxia of the fetuses.
  • (16) Neutropenia in the presence of respiratory distress in the first 72 hours had an 84% likelihood of signifying bacterial disease, whereas neutropenia in the presence of asphyxia had a 68% likelihood of signifying bacterial disease.
  • (17) Most of the stillbirth and neonatal deaths were because of gross asphyxia, prolonged labor due to cephalopelvic disproportion and uterine dysfunction, fetal distress, and abnormal presentation.
  • (18) Each case was complicated by neonatal asphyxia, and the neonate needed resuscitation by means of endotracheal intubation.
  • (19) Low birthweight (LBW) and perinatal asphyxia are known to be high-risk factors for a number of neurodevelopmental deficits.
  • (20) On these conditions multiple anomalies combined with prematurity and intrauterine asphyxia had some influence on, whether a patient lived so long, that an operation could take place.

Drown


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.
  • (v. t.) To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of life by immersion in water or other liquid.
  • (v. t.) To overpower; to overcome; to extinguish; -- said especially of sound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
  • (2) He had been extremely frustrated that indicators of economic recovery over the past few days had been drowned out by the clamour over the Labour leadership.
  • (3) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
  • (4) This phenomena is strongly marked in spastic and mixed types of drowning and is absent in aspiration and reflex types.
  • (5) "So we do what we can to keep the red tide from drowning us.
  • (6) The identifiable causes of child drowning are absence of a safety barrier or fence around the water hazard, non-supervision of a child, a parental "vulnerable period", an inadequate safety barrier, and tempting objects in or on the water.
  • (7) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
  • (8) Examples and statistical data are drown from this series.
  • (9) The results are analyzed within the context of the child drowning and child development literature.
  • (10) It can be seen that the physiologic changes occurring in near-drowning are complex.
  • (11) But if anyone was drowned out, it was the Greens’ Natalie Bennett .
  • (12) But the overall drownings seem to be going up and I don’t know if it’s older people, if it’s young men being more brave around water.” Lawrence suggested children may be failing to continue swimming and water safety education once they have basic skills.
  • (13) These findings indicate a need for Los Angeles County to address the problem of drownings among infants and toddlers in private swimming pools and to investigate the failure of regulations requiring fencing of swimming pools to prevent these deaths.
  • (14) Both are alleged to have plied the Devon girl with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious to drown on Anjuna beach, metres from a bar in which the group had spent the evening drinking.
  • (15) He shouted “Cops Lives Matter” before being drowned out with the “Bernie” chant.
  • (16) As the party's internal electoral commission counted and recounted the votes during the day, appeals for calm were drowned out by waves of accusation and counter-accusation.
  • (17) The hemodynamic effects of the drowning solutions were explainable solely by the effects of anoxia.
  • (18) A drowning in Spartanburg, South Carolina, also was linked to the storm.
  • (19) It was reported that the Greek tourist board had asked TV networks to keep the crowd volume low amid fears Greek fans in the stadium would drown out the German national anthem with jeers.
  • (20) In order to study the initial pathological changes that occur in drowning, the authors developed an experimental model that closely simulates the actual changes in the nearly drowned patient.