Hypoxia

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 (medical), 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.
  • Pseudohypoxia, increased cytosolic ratio of free NADH to NAD⁺ in cells
  • Tumor hypoxia, the situation where tumor cells have been deprived of oxygen

Music

• Hypoxia (album), by Kathryn Williams, 2015
• Hypoxia, an album by Projected, or the title song, 2022
• "Hypoxia", a song by Delerium from Spheres 2, 1994
• "Hypoxia", a song by Thomas Giles from Pulse, 2011