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What does hypoxic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from hypoxia.
  2. Describing a breathing gas mixture that contains less than 21% oxygen.
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In contrast, substantial increases in programmed cell death and gliosis develop when the hypoxic exposure is administered in a cyclical fashion.
At necropsy these infants have severe brain swelling and hypoxic injury but little axonal shearing and only a thin subdural haemorrhage.
When a person using inhalants becomes hypercapnic and hypoxic by rebreathing from a closed bag, the effects of the inhalant are intensified.
The presence of carboxyhaemoglobin also diminishes the oxygen held by the normal haemoglobin, which further compounds the hypoxic effect.
But there was no difference in glucose intolerance between hypoxic and hypoglycemic conditions.
The patient became febrile, hypoxic, developed hemorrhagic pneumonia, and died.

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