| Name: | response to hypoxia |
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| Synonyms: | response to hypoxic stress, response to intermittent hypoxia, response to lowered oxygen tension, response to sustained hypoxia |
| Definition: | Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of a stimulus indicating lowered oxygen tension. Hypoxia, defined as a decline in O2 levels below normoxic levels of 20.8 - 20.95%, results in metabolic adaptation at both the cellular and organismal level. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0001666] QuickGO AmiGO |
| Name: | physical quality of a process |
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| Ontology: | Phenotypic Quality Ontology [PATO:0002062] |