ischemic hypoxia

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsstagnant hypoxia

   Broaderhypoxia

Questions about ischemic hypoxia

What does ischemic hypoxia mean?

ischemic hypoxia means "hypoxia resulting from slow peripheral circulation (such as follows congestive cardiac failure)".

What is another word for ischemic hypoxia?

Close synonyms include stagnant hypoxia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ischemic hypoxia a common word?

ischemic hypoxia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.