An older or variant form of 'asphyxia'; suffocation or deprivation of oxygen causing unconsciousness or death.
Shortened or variant form of 'asphyxia,' showing how medical terminology evolves as languages and scientific understanding change over time.
This spelling appears in older medical texts from the 1700s and 1800s when people were still deciding how to spell Greek medical terms in English—it's like watching a word being born.
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