Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun oxygen_deficit

1 sense of oxygen deficit

Sense 1
oxygen deficit -- (temporary oxygen shortage in cells resulting from strenuous exercise)
       => deficit, shortage, shortfall -- (the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit")