What's the difference between asphyxia and suffocation?

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.

Suffocation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In his only specific growth measure, he said Britain's planning laws would have to be scrapped so more housing could be built, vowing to scrap "the suffocating bureaucracy" that he said was holding economic growth back.
  • (2) Because of inspiration into the tracheo-bronchial aireays, regurgitation from purely oesophageal diseases can provoke various respiratory affections: acute broncho-pulmonary blocking broncho-pneumonia, pulmonary suppuration, night cough, fits of nocturnal suffocation, chronic bronchitis sometimes hemoptic.
  • (3) An orderly process of dealing with asylum claims at the earliest point would be infinitely preferable to desperate families laying siege to central European railway stations, risking their lives clinging on to vehicles at Calais or suffocating in vehicles transporting them across borders.
  • (4) If any of them is neglected or isolated from the rest, the whole will be impoverished-the student will suffocate in disconnected, empirical facts; fanciful theories will be spun from tenuous evidence; well established theory will be neglected by the practitioner; the best-intentioned schemes will have disastrous long-term consequences.
  • (5) But his growing band of critics fear the suffocation of democracy and human rights.
  • (6) There is nothing he said which could be understood as an incitement to violence, and nothing which is not obviously true, and commonplace outside the squalid little dogma that suffocates the human spirit in Saudi.
  • (7) On day one, we were almost stampeded by elephants, and I had to suffocate a goat and then drink its blood directly from the jugular.
  • (8) I marvel now at how he learned to anchor himself – physically and mentally – in that suffocating darkness.
  • (9) This trip to Basel should, in theory, be as tough as it gets and that layer of insurance may have helped Hodgson’s team to play without feeling too suffocated by external pressures.
  • (10) In sum, we will render impotent the government's efforts to use its coercive pressure over corporations to suffocate not only WikiLeaks but any other group it may similarly target in the future.
  • (11) Every weekend ... you end up getting suffocated by what happens on the football field.
  • (12) "We are so used to seeing one idea of what a young man or woman is in the popular media," she says, adding that it is "suffocating" how homogeneously young people are represented on screen.
  • (13) Patients with advanced esophageal carcinoma with tracheobronchial obstruction usually present with severe dyspnea or hemoptysis or both and may die of suffocation.
  • (14) His head pounds, “my chest gets heavy, stomach gets tight” and “I feel suffocated, anxious.” “I have difficulty breathing at the end of the day, my face is black with soot,” says Kumar, waiting for his next fare on a noisy corner in south Delhi, beside a road jammed with honking cars, trucks and buses.
  • (15) The notoriously suffocating tone of the 50th anniversary in 1966, when veterans of 1916 were still alive and the all-Ireland republic was treated as unfinished business, has been replaced by a more open and inclusive approach today, as the rising recedes into history, though without diminishing its narrative potency.
  • (16) From 1 January, residents in India’s capital city, which had been suffocating under a blanket of smog in recent days, will only be able to drive on alternate days based on their licence plate number; odd numbers on one day, even on the other.
  • (17) Some were related to age group specific behaviour, such as drownings and falls in young children and suffocations in infants.
  • (18) But is it really so bad that Lydia refuses to conform to the strict and suffocating conventions of female propriety?
  • (19) She died of the suffocation caused by bronchopneumonia at the age of 60 years.
  • (20) With Greece suffocating under capital controls and the banks fighting for survival under a mountain of bad debt, a main focus of the bailout programme is saving and reviving the banking sector through the recapitalisation of ailing financial institutions.