Relating to or caused by asphyxia; lacking oxygen or unable to breathe properly.
From Greek 'asphyxia' (absence of pulse) + '-tic' (relating to). The Greek roots are 'a-' (not) + 'sphyzis' (pulse), later applied to oxygen deprivation.
Early doctors used 'asphyctic' specifically to describe the loss of pulse, not breathing—they thought suffocation worked by stopping your heart, not realizing oxygen was the real culprit.
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