Asphyxia

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In medical jurisprudence. A temporary suspension of the motion of the heart and arteries; swooning; fainting.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Suspended animation usually caused by suffocation, drowning or inhalation of gas. See 36 Kan. 1, 12 Pac. 318.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

In Medical Jurisprudence. Suspended animation and death produced by non-conversion of the venous blood of the lungs into arterial. by breathing mepbitic gas; by suspension or strangulation. In a legal point of view, it is always proper to ascertain whether the person who has thus been deprived of his 6enses is the victim of another, whether the injury has been caused by accident, or whether it is the act of the sufferer himself. See 1 Hamilton, Leg. Med. 113, 120; 1 Wh. & St. Med. Jur. 534; Death. ASPORTATION (Lat asportotto). The act of carrying a thing away; the removing a thing from one place to another. The carrying away of a chattel which one Is accused of stealing. See Larceny.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In medical jurisprudence. A morbid condition of swooning, suffocation or suspended animation, resulting in death if not relieved, produced by any serious interference with normal respiration (as, the inhalation of poisonous gases or too rarified air, choking, drowning, obstruction of the air passages or paralysis of the respiratory muscles) with a censequent deficiency of oxygen in the blood. See Sinte v. Baldwin, 36 Kan. 1, 12 Pac. 328.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In medical jurisprudence. Swooning, suspended animation, produced by the non-conyersion of the venous bleed of the lungs into arterial.