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Asphyxia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1506 words) |
 | Asphyxia (from Greek a-, "without" and sphuxis, "pulse, heartbeat") is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from being unable to breathe normally. |
| In an experiment where dogs were suffocated by placing an air-tight rubber mask over the dogs' heads, it was shown that it took around 8 minutes for the dogs to go into cardiac arrest. |
| This can be contrasted with another experiment in dogs were suffocated by forcing them to breathe nitrogen, the dogs surviving only an average of 5 minutes. |
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