Asphyxia

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.