2006-07-05 04:18:56 · 29 answers · asked by loveboatcaptain@btinternet.com 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Basically. Both stop you from receiving the air you need, and you die from lack of oxygen. Only difference is that drowning HAS to occur in water or some kind of liquid, suffocating does not.
2006-07-05 04:22:07 · answer #1 · answered by chica_zarca 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Suffocation is when there is less or no air to breathe. However, drowning is also almost the same - one drowns because one is unable to breathe. I guess one essential difference is one can only drown in a liquid and only suffocate where air should be present but is not.
Both drowning and suffocation RESULT from not having air to breathe.
2006-07-05 04:24:41 · answer #2 · answered by Tauba 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some types of strangulation can cause death without suffocation because the constriction of the bloodflow actually causes death. That being said, drowning is a TYPE of suffocation. Any obstruction that interrupts the flow of oxygen and a build up of carbon dioxide is aspyxiation/suffocation, and drowning falls into that category.
2006-07-05 04:30:55 · answer #3 · answered by dark_storm73 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
In both suffocation and drowning the lungs are prohibited from carrying out their function of gasseous exchange.
In suffocation is prevented from reaching the blood which usually happens via the lungs where gasseous exchange happens in the alveoli. carbon dioxide is also stopped from exiting the body.
In the case of drowning, water fills the lungs and stopping any oxygen getting in to the blood.
2006-07-09 02:54:10 · answer #4 · answered by Evil spoon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Drowning is a type of suffacation. Suffocation is any form of being unable to breathe. Drowning is suffocation under water.
2006-07-05 04:21:52 · answer #5 · answered by yo. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Suffocating is dying from lack of oxygen, drowning happens the same way. If you drown, you soffocate, but if you suffocate, you may not exactly drown.
2006-07-05 04:22:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not. Drowning is where the lungs become full of liquid and therefore cannot receive air. Suffocation is where you are starved of oxygen.
Jules, lecturer. Australia.
2006-07-05 04:24:38 · answer #7 · answered by Jules G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, in the sense that in both cases you die from lack of oxygen.
No in the physiological sense that when you drown your lungs will fill with water; whereas in other cases of suffocation you likely will not.
2006-07-05 04:22:03 · answer #8 · answered by FriendlyHelper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO! omfg drowning is filling your lungs with liquid so you can no longer breath, suffocating is starving your lungs of oxygen, cutting out the source of your breathing
2006-07-05 04:21:57 · answer #9 · answered by andylegendoneill 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, because when you drown you die from lack of air, the same as when you suffocate.
2006-07-05 04:39:19 · answer #10 · answered by lindsey_loo_13 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋