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adj. - Relating to or marked by a severe deficiency of oxygen in tissues or organs.

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  • Newly developing ocean basins, formed by plate tectonics and continental rifting, provide just the right conditions for rapid burial in anoxic waters.
  • His team studies lakes of concentrated salt solution, known as anoxic hypersaline basins, on the floor of the Mediterranean.
  • And all of those were patients who had suffered traumatic brain injury, not "anoxic" brain injury caused by a lack of oxygen from, say, cardiac arrest.
  • Steve, the anoxic conditions bit is right I think.
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