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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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She also found signs of hypoxic damage to nerve cells due to lack of oxygen before death.
But there was no difference in glucose intolerance between hypoxic and hypoglycemic conditions.
Control tissues were free of significant autolysis and showed no signs of hypoxic or ischemic injury.
The presence of carboxyhaemoglobin also diminishes the oxygen held by the normal haemoglobin, which further compounds the hypoxic effect.
Subjects were studied at baseline and during hypoxic and hypercapnic rebreathing tests.
At necropsy these infants have severe brain swelling and hypoxic injury but little axonal shearing and only a thin subdural haemorrhage.

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