Hypoxia and Medicine

what is hypoxia?

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1. Above normanl oxygen level; excessive oxygen
2. Hypoxia occurs when you don´t have enough oxygen in your blood to cover your body necessities. You can measure it using an exam called arterial gases analysis, and you have hypoxia if your PO2 (Pressure of Oxygen) is less than 60.
3. Mrs. Cokley needs to study more!!
4. Actually a little studying all around--inadequate or reduced oxygen in the BLOOD is called hypoxemia. Hypoxia is , a shortage of oxygen in the BODY (at the cellular level). blood; anoxia is when there is no oxygen available at all. * Environmental hypoxia, a condition in high altitudes such as mountains where the reduced partial pressure of oxygen available leads to hypoxia. * Ischemia, a restriction in blood supply (and therefore oxygen supply) to an organ or section of the body, generally due to constriction or blocking of blood vessels.