A person who suffers from asthma.
Having the characteristics of asthma, as in an "asthmatic cough".
Asphyxia—a condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body accompanied by an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide leads to loss of consciousness or death.
A child left unattended may die of suffocation.
A particular act of death or killing by means of asphyxia.