Few psychological treatments have been as widely heralded as EMDR. Some EMDR proponents have called it a âmiracle cureâ and âparadigm shift,â and ABC's 20/20 proclaimed it an âexciting breakthroughâ in the treatment of anxiety.
hypoxic hypoxia in Medicine. hypoxic hypoxia n. Hypoxia resulting from a defective mechanism of oxygenation in the lungs, as is caused by a low tension of oxygen, by abnormal pulmonary function, or by a right-to-left shunt in the heart. Also called anoxic anoxia.
Hypoxia differs from hypoxemia in that hypoxia refers to a state in which oxygen supply is insufficient, whereas hypoxemia refers specifically to states that have low arterial oxygen supply. Hypoxia in which there is complete deprivation of oxygen supply is referred to as anoxia.