<Tr> <Th> Specialty </Th> <Td> Pulmonology </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> (edit on Wikidata) </Td> </Tr> <P> Hypoxemia (or hypoxaemia in British English) is an abnormally low level of oxygen in the blood . More specifically, it is oxygen deficiency in arterial blood . Hypoxemia has many causes, often respiratory disorders, and can cause tissue hypoxia as the blood is not supplying enough oxygen to the body . </P> <P> Hypoxemia refers to low oxygen in the blood, and the more general term hypoxia is an abnormally low oxygen content in any tissue or organ, or the body as a whole . Hypoxemia can cause hypoxia (hypoxemic hypoxia), but hypoxia can also occur via other mechanisms, such as anemia . </P>

The decreased amount of oxygen in the bloodstream resulting from respiratory insufficiency is called