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Noun: stagnant hypoxia
  1. Hypoxia resulting from slow peripheral circulation (such as follows congestive cardiac failure)
    "The patient's stagnant hypoxia was a complication of their heart condition";
    - ischemic hypoxia

Derived forms: stagnant hypoxias

Type of: hypoxia