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<medicine> Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.
Origin: NL. Asphyxia, fr. Gr.; priv. + to throb, beat.
(01 Mar 1998)
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