| anaemic anoxia | A term formerly considered synonymous with anaemic hypoxia, but now reserved for extremely severe cases in which oxygen is almost completely lacking. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| anoxia | <physiology> A total lack of oxygen, often used interchangeably with hypoxia to mean a reduced supply of oxygen to the tissues. (18 Nov 1997) |
| anoxia neonatorum | Any anoxia observed in newborn infants. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anoxic anoxia | A term formerly considered synonymous with hypoxic hypoxia, but now reserved for extremely severe cases in which oxygen is almost completely lacking. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cerebral anoxia | A reduced supply of oxygen to the brain. (12 Dec 1998) |
| histotoxic anoxia | Poisoning of the respiratory enzyme systems of the tissues, as in the inhibition of cytochrome oxidase by cyanides; owing to the inability of tissue cells to utilise oxygen, its tension in arterial and capillary blood is usually greater than normal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stagnant anoxia | Stagnant hypoxia severe enough to result in the absence of oxygen in tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diffusion anoxia | Diffusion hypoxia severe enough to result in the absence of oxygen in alveolar gas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oxygen affinity anoxia | Anoxia due to inability of haemoglobin to release oxygen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| foetal anoxia | Foetal oxygen deficiency. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ABO haemolytic disease of the newborn | Erythroblastosis foetalis due to maternal-foetal incompatibility with respect to an antigen of the ABO blood group; the foetus possesses A or B antigen which is lacking in the mother, and the mother produces immune antibody which causes haemolysis of foetal erythrocytes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bullous impetigo of newborn | Usually, widely disseminated bullous lesions appearing soon after birth, caused by infection with Staphylococcus aureus. Synonym: impetigo neonatorum, pemphigus gangrenosus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn | A disease seen especially in premature neonates with respiratory distress; characterised postmortem by atelectasis and alveolar ducts lined by an eosinophilic membrane; also associated with reduced amounts of lung surfactant. Synonym: hyaline membrane syndrome, respiratory distress syndrome of the newborn. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pleural effusion in newborn | <radiology> Chylothorax most common cause of large effusion, erythroblastosis foetalis, Turner syndrome, congestive heart failure, infantile polycystic kidneys, wet-lung disease, hypervolaemia (idiopathic or iatrogenic), oesophageal tear, enteric cyst, obstructed pulmonary veins (12 Dec 1998) |
| congenital epulis of newborn | A congenital benign nodular tumour of the alveolar ridge, of unknown histogenesis; histologically, it is composed of large cells with a granular cytoplasm similar to that of a granular cell tumour (myoblastoma). (05 Mar 2000) |