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ASPHYXIA (Gr. A- priv., <r&>£it, a pulse), a term in medicine, literally signifying loss of pulsation, which is applied to describe the arrest men t of the function of respiration from some hindrance to the entrance of air into the lungs. (See RESPIRATORY SYST ...

APYREXIA (Gr. Arvp«(la, from A-. privative, wvp to be in a fever, wvp, fire, fever), in pathology, the nortn.il interval or IM-IUX! »f intrrmission in a fever.

... convulsions may set in towards the end, and a death somewhat similar to that of asphyxia takes place. In some recent experiments on cats performed by Sutherland Simpson and Percy T. Herring, they found them unable to survive when the rectal temperature was red ...

... ase. The Libyan nomads made their huts of asphodel stalks (cf. Herod, iv. 190). ASPHYXIA— ASQUITH No satisfactory derivation of the word is suggested. The English word " daffodil " is a perversion of " asphodel," formerly written " aflodil." The d may come fro ...

... t if timely treatment is available recovery may take place. 2. Heat Apoplexy or Asphyxia. — In this variety the attack, whether preceded or not by the premonitory symptoms already mentioned, is usually sudden, and occurs in the form of an apoplectic seizure, w ...