stagnant anoxia

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

   Synonymsischemic anoxia

   Broaderanoxia

Questions about stagnant anoxia

What does stagnant anoxia mean?

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

What is another word for stagnant anoxia?

Close synonyms include ischemic anoxia. 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 stagnant anoxia a common word?

stagnant anoxia 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.