Hypoxia
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Hypoxia means a lower than normal level of oxygen, and may refer to:
Reduced or insufficient oxygen
Hypoxia (environmental), abnormally low oxygen content of a specific environment
Hypoxia in fish, responses of fish to hypoxia
Hypoxia (medicine), abnormally low level of oxygen in the tissues
Autoerotic hypoxia or erotic asphyxiation, intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for sexual arousal
Cerebral hypoxia, a reduced supply of oxygen to the brain
Diffusion hypoxia or Fink effect, a factor that influences the partial pressure of oxygen within the pulmonary alveoli
Histotoxic hypoxia, the inability of cells to take up or use oxygen from the bloodstream
Anemic hypoxia, blood is not able to take sufficient amount of oxygen due to Anemia
Hypoxemic hypoxia or hypoxemia, a deficiency of oxygen in arterial blood
Hypoxic hypoxia, a result of insufficient oxygen available to the lungs
Intrauterine hypoxia, when a fetus is deprived of an adequate supply of oxygen
Generalized hypoxia is hypoxia distributed amongst all tissues
Latent hypoxia is artificially raised oxygen concentration in the blood due to high ambient pressure and will reduce when the pressure is reduced to normal, associated with freediving blackout.
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