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Asphyxy |
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ASPHYXY, med. jur. A temporary suspension of the motion of the heart and
arteries; swooning, fainting. This term includes persons who have been
asphyxiated by submersion or drowning; by breathing mephitic gas; by the
effect of lightning; by the effect of cold; by heat; 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 senses is the victim
of another, whether the injury has been caused by accident, or whether it
is. the act of the sufferer himself.
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