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dyspnea

English

Alternative forms

  • dyspnoea (UK)
  • dyspnœa (obsolete)

Etymology

From dys- +? -pnea, from Latin dyspnoea, from ???????? (dúspnoia, “bad breathing”), compound of ???- (dus-, “bad, unfortunate”) and ???? (pno?, “breeze”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?d?sp.ni.?/, /d?sp?ni??/

Noun

dyspnea (countable and uncountable, plural dyspneas)

  1. (pathology, North American spelling) Difficult or labored respiration; shortness of breath.

Synonyms

  • shortness of breath
  • breathlessness

Translations

Anagrams

  • Pandeys

Interlingua

Noun

dyspnea (uncountable)

  1. dyspnea

Related terms

  • dyspneic

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orthopnea

English

Etymology

ortho- +? -pnea

Pronunciation

See full workup of the variants at Wikipedia > Shortness of breath > Collation of -pnea transcriptions.

Noun

orthopnea

  1. Alternative spelling of orthopnoea

orthopnea From the web:

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  • orthopneic position
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