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the body's panic isn't about missing oxygen, it's about drowning in your own breath.
means The act or state of being deprived of air — dying or struggling to breathe because oxygen can't get in or carbon dioxide can't get out.
from From Latin 'suffocare,' to choke or stifle, built from 'sub-' (under) and 'fauces' — the throat, the gullet, that narrow passage of the windpipe. So the literal sense is something pressing 'under the throat,' a squeezing from below. The same 'fauces' gives us the anatomical word for the back of the mouth, and the verb arrived in English through French in the late 16th century.
- real trigger
- Rising CO2, not falling oxygen, sparks the alarm
- silent killer
- Pure nitrogen feels painless until you collapse
- diving paradox
- Hyperventilation lets swimmers black out underwater unwarned
- word roots
- From Latin suffocare, meaning to choke under
for instance
the astroworld crowd crush — 10 people died by suffocation in crowd compression at travis scott's houston concert in november 2021