ANOXIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anoxic mean? 

• ANOXIC (adjective)
  The adjective ANOXIC has 1 sense:

1. relating to or marked by a severe deficiency of oxygen in tissues or organs

  Familiarity information: ANOXIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANOXIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or marked by a severe deficiency of oxygen in tissues or organs

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

anoxia (severe hypoxia; absence of oxygen in inspired gases or in arterial blood or in the tissues)

Derivation:

anoxia (severe hypoxia; absence of oxygen in inspired gases or in arterial blood or in the tissues)

 Context examples 

They found that high rates of carbon accumulation in lake sediments were stimulated by several factors, including thermokarst erosion and deposition of terrestrial organic matter, nutrient release from thawing permafrost that stimulated lake productivity, and by slow decomposition in cold, anoxic lake bottoms.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)