How to Use hypoxia in a Sentence

hypoxia

noun
  • The average size of the hypoxia zone in the Gulf over the past five years has been 4,298 square miles.
    Steve Wilson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The start of the hypoxia season is marked by the upwelling of cold bottom water.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 26 July 2021
  • Darcy was treated for hypoxia – a lack of oxygen in the body – by her owner who held the oxygen mask over the dog’s face.
    Alexandra Deabler, Fox News, 8 July 2018
  • Nemkov explains that when there are too few red blood cells, there is not enough oxygen getting to the body’s tissues, which can lead to a state referred to as hypoxia.
    Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
  • Redmayne spent some time in an oxygen-deprivation tank to get a feel for the effects of hypoxia.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2019
  • But there’s no way to test bodies for a lack of oxygen, or hypoxia, after an accident.
    Sasha Richie, Dallas News, 8 June 2023
  • The dead zone is an area where there is very little to no oxygen, a situation known as hypoxia, that NOAA says can kill fish and marine life.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Altitude sickness is a mild form of hypoxia, when the tissues of your body don’t receive enough oxygen.
    Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 14 June 2023
  • The hypoxia event is unexplained, but not uncommon in the Sound, said Powell, the coastal scientist.
    Anita Lee, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But investigators are looking at hypoxia, or the lack of oxygen in the body, as a possible cause of the crash, according to a source.
    Gregory Wallace, CNN, 8 June 2023
  • Hamm’s comment today was not the first to indicate the state was getting close to having a nitrogen hypoxia method ready.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 15 Feb. 2023
  • If that estimate is accurate, this year's hypoxia zone could be the largest ever.
    Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 20 June 2017
  • As of last night, nitrogen hypoxia as a means of execution is no longer an untested method.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • When the blood oxygen level is low, while a person is inactive, this is referred to as resting hypoxia.
    Sherry Christiansen Updated, Verywell Health, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The Helios crash is an example of hypoxia setting in slowly as an aircraft climbs.
    Gregory Wallace, CNN, 8 June 2023
  • But Marks wrote that Barber failed to request nitrogen hypoxia during a time when the state allowed condemned inmates to make that choice in 2018.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 8 July 2023
  • This corneal hypoxia can allow infections to fester as well as cause damage the corneal tissue.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Tobin said the cause of Floyd's death was hypoxia, or a low level of oxygen that led to asphyxia, or suffocation.
    Eric Ferkenhoff, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2021
  • A lack of oxygen to the brain, called hypoxia, can also result in climbers making rash and sometimes fatal decisions.
    Manveena Suri, CNN, 8 May 2017
  • Cerebral hypoxia can happen if there is a loss in cabin pressure or the plane reaches too high an altitude.
    Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 10 June 2023
  • Most climbers who are vulnerable to hypoxia at high altitudes will feel it here.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
  • Pretending your own needs end when your child’s begin is a sure way to die of hypoxia, among other needless suffering.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • That can cause a condition called hypoxia, in which a lot of nutrients are deposited into the water.
    Amanda Gokee, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Breathing can slow or stop and heroin users can develop a condition known as hypoxia, which means the brain isn’t getting enough oxygen.
    Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • But not nearly the level that would lead to hypoxia or other forms of carbon dioxide poisoning, per the Cleveland Clinic.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 30 June 2020
  • Even ground crews have been diagnosed with hypoxia symptoms.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2018
  • The appeal asks for Barber to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a method that does not require IV lines.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 20 July 2023
  • The appeals In his latest appeals, Woods case has been focused around nitrogen hypoxia.
    Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Prison staff members put Miller, 59, to death via nitrogen hypoxia, in which a person breathes only nitrogen through a mask apparatus and is deprived of oxygen.
    Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Court documents cited by the Montgomery Advertiser state that Miller and his attorneys eventually reached a deal with the state, granting his request to die by nitrogen hypoxia instead of lethal injection.
    Nicole Acosta, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024

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