HYPOXIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypoxia mean? 

• HYPOXIA (noun)
  The noun HYPOXIA has 1 sense:

1. oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency

  Familiarity information: HYPOXIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPOXIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hypoxia" is a kind of...):

drive (a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hypoxia"):

anemic hypoxia (hypoxia resulting from a decreased concentration of hemoglobin)

hypoxic hypoxia (hypoxia resulting from defective oxygenation of the blood in the lungs)

ischemic hypoxia; stagnant hypoxia (hypoxia resulting from slow peripheral circulation (such as follows congestive cardiac failure))

altitude sickness (effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudes)

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

asphyxiation; suffocation (the condition of being deprived of oxygen (as by having breathing stopped))

Holonyms ("hypoxia" is a part of...):

asphyxia (a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas)

 Context examples 

An agent binding to the leukotriene B4 receptor, leading to reduced interleukin-2 mediated hypoxia.

(Biomed 101, NCI Thesaurus)

It can be associated with hypoxia, ischemia, acute myocardial infarction, and medication overdose.

(Bigeminy Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)

CD34/CXCR4-positive stem cells are naturally mobilized upon cell injury through signaling by hypoxia inducing factor (HIF), which is secreted in response to hypoxia.

(Autologous Bone Marrow-derived CD34/CXCR4-positive Stem Cells AMR-001, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes egl nine homolog 1 protein, is involved in the response to hypoxia.

(EGLN1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Tissue hypoxia detection via EF5 has been reported in several cancers, including squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix and the head and neck, and in sarcoma.

(EF5, NCI Thesaurus)

An abnormal plasma protein that precipitates within the microvasculature on exposure to cold; microvasculature effects of cryoglobulinemia may result in restricted tissue blood flow, tissue hypoxia, and tissue necrosis.

(Cryoglobulin, NCI Thesaurus)

The extent of copper Cu 62-ATSM retention in tissue is inversely related to the state of tissue oxygenation allowing the quantitation of tissue hypoxia with PET.

(Copper Cu 62-ATSM, NCI Thesaurus)

Cryoglobulins are abnormal proteins that precipitate within the microvasculature on exposure to cold; microvasculature effects of cryoglobulinemia may result in restricted tissue blood flow, tissue hypoxia, and tissue necrosis. —2004

(Cryoglobulinemia, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes angiopoietin-related protein 4, is involved in hypoxia response, angiogenesis and cell differentiation.

(ANGPTL4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in both the response to hypoxia and transcriptional regulation.

(Endothelial PAS Domain-Containing Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)