stagnant hypoxia

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsischemic hypoxia

   Broaderhypoxia

Questions about stagnant hypoxia

What does stagnant hypoxia mean?

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

What is another word for stagnant hypoxia?

Close synonyms include ischemic 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 stagnant hypoxia a common word?

stagnant 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.