How to Use hypoxia in a Sentence

hypoxia

noun

• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], 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 | [e-mail], 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 | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• The appeals In his latest appeals, Woods case has been focused around nitrogen hypoxia.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 5 Mar. 2020
• The resulting patch of low-oxygen waters leads to a condition called hypoxia, where animals in the area suffocate and die.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 10 June 2019
• Oxygen levels may drop so slowly that the patient doesn’t even notice, a condition called silent hypoxia.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• As the summers progress, the quality of his work zones worsens with floating black mud and the combination of heat, sun and nitrogen that makes hypoxia—oxygen too low to support life.
  — Christine Woodside, courant.com, 4 Oct. 2019
• The Navy isn’t the only service dealing with the vexing issue of oxygen deprivation, known as hypoxia, and the F-18 isn’t the only fighter jet affected.
  — Roxana Tiron, Bloomberg.com, 15 June 2017

Last Updated: 28 May 2024