anoxic
- a relating to or marked by a severe deficiency of oxygen in tissues or organs
- For one thing, they recycle the stinky stuff in anoxic environments, and Rove is really on the other end of that equation:.
- Somehow, inexplicably, he had survived the nightlong storm, living through bitter, anoxic conditions that should have killed him hours before.
- We have a stratified (canfield-type) ocean with anoxic surface waters and euxinic bottom waters that were probably too warm at depth to allow such clathrates to form.