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
  • 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
  • Most climbers who are vulnerable to hypoxia at high altitudes will feel it here.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
  • 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
  • If that estimate is accurate, this year's hypoxia zone could be the largest ever.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 20 June 2017
  • 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
  • As of last night, nitrogen hypoxia as a means of execution is no longer an untested method.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Myers was to be executed by nitrogen gas hypoxia, though no date had been set.
    — James Powel, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • This corneal hypoxia can allow infections to fester as well as cause damage the corneal tissue.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • But once the cell goes into hypoxia, production goes into overdrive.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Grayson had chosen nitrogen hypoxia before a protocol for it was in place.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 22 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • The thin air starves brains and lungs of oxygen, which can develop into the deadly condition hypoxia.
    — Helen Regan, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The Helios crash is an example of hypoxia setting in slowly as an aircraft climbs.
    — Gregory Wallace, CNN, 8 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hamm’s comment today was not the first to indicate the state was getting close to having a nitrogen hypoxia method ready.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 15 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • With the nitrogen hypoxia method, the condemned breathes pure nitrogen through a mask that displaces oxygen in their system.
    — Marty Roney, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Now, let there be no doubt, nitrogen hypoxia is one of the cruelest and most unusual forms of punishment to ever exist.
    — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Carbon dioxide builds up in the bloodstream, hypoxia sets in, and circulation falters.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Cerebral hypoxia – which is when the brain is deprived of oxygen – can happen if a plane reaches too high an altitude or if there is a loss of cabin pressure.
    — Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The appeals In his latest appeals, Woods case has been focused around nitrogen hypoxia.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | [email protected], al, 5 Mar. 2020

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