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Dictionary » D » Drowning DrowningDrowning death within 24 hours of immersion in liquid, either due to anoxia or cardiac arrest caused by sudden extreme lowering of temperature (immersion syndrome). See: near drowning. ![]()
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Results from our forumRe: Sound and how the brain reacts to it... booklets in the mail that she would skim through. Also, when I'm in class and someone is turning the pages I get this sensation like everything is drowning in water. And I start hoping it's a long book. I also get this sensation from laying my head next to a keyboard while someone types. The thud ...
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Re: Shallow Water DrowningInteresting! thanks for your reply. Talk to me some more about pH sensing please (i know all about the chemistry aspect of pH and what it measures etc - just gimme the biological stuff - please). but back to the CO2-O2 stuff, surely "Danger! Low O2 - please inhale NOW!" would predate all m...
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Shallow Water DrowningShallow Water Drowning is (for the non scuba divers/snorklers among us) when you hyper-hyper ventilate before taking a deep breathe and submerging. What happens then is (this is the boring bit) that there is so little CO2 in your ...
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if cellulase microbes get loose... optimum - Ability of the bacteria to survive outside its host/fermentor But all that could evolve, and why not? Then at least we would die drowning in ethanol, I can imagine worse than a gigantic binge death :)
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