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单词 oxygen starvation
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oxygen starvation
b. In wider use. Deprivation or insufficient supply of some essential thing, esp. a chemical element which is necessary to sustain life or ensure normal growth and development. Frequently with distinguishing word, as nitrogen starvation, oxygen starvation, etc.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > state of being limited in amount > scarcity, dearth, or deficient supply of anything > deprivation of something necessary to life
starvation1866
1835 S. Graham Def. Graham Syst. Living 127 Magendie concluded..that they [sc. animals] could not live on..substances which contain no nitrogen... A rabbit or guinea-pig, fed on the best wheat alone, die[s] of starvation within a fortnight.]
1866 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. iv. §31. 103 Two deadly influences..are co-operating; one is the deprivation of oxygen, the other is the excessive accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood. Oxygen starvation and carbonic acid poisoning..are at work together.
1866 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. vi. §7. 142 Whether an animal be herbivorous or carnivorous, it begins to starve from the moment its vital food-stuffs consist of pure amyloids or fats, or any mixture of them. It suffers from what may be called nitrogen starvation.
1892 Ann. Rep. Minnesota State Hort. Soc. 21 149 When the required amount of potash is withheld the plants are not vigorous, if all of the potash is removed from the soil the plant soon dies of potassium starvation.
1900 H. J. Webber in B. M. Lelong Culture of Citrus in Calif. 150 Several intelligent growers claim to be able to recognize the effect of phosphorus starvation by the appearance of the new growth of leaves.
1934 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 55 38 A number of different kinds of mediums were used in these experiments on carbon starvation, but in general the results were the same... Certain [bacterial] cultures appeared to lose all acid-fastness for a time, but this condition could not be continued indefinitely.
1971 Nature 26 Nov. 232/1 One of the first obvious effects of nitrogen starvation in blue-green algae is the disappearance of phycobilin pigments.
2001 B. Hatch Internat. Gooseberry 149 Dr Schafe said the oxygen starvation was going to be general across all areas of Danny's brain.
extracted from starvationn.adv.
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