different between dyspnoea vs orthopnoea
dyspnoea
English
Etymology
dys- +? -pnoea, from Latin dyspnoea, from Ancient Greek ???????? (dúspnoia, “bad breathing”), compound of ???- (dus-, “bad, unfortunate”) and ???? (pno?, “breeze”).
Pronunciation
See full workup of the variants at Wikipedia > Shortness of breath > Collation of -pnea transcriptions.
Noun
dyspnoea (countable and uncountable, plural dyspnoeas)
- (British spelling) Alternative spelling of dyspnea
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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (dúspnoia)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /dysp?noe?.a/, [d??s?p?noe?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /disp?ne.a/, [d?isp?n???]
Noun
dyspnoea f (genitive dyspnoeae); first declension
- dyspnea (difficulty breathing)
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- dyspnoea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dyspnoea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
dyspnoea From the web:
- what dyspnoea mean
- dyspnoea what causes
- what is dyspnoea in medical terms
- what is dyspnoea on exertion
- what is dyspnoea nhs
- what causes dyspnoea in heart failure
- what does dyspnoea mean in medical terms
- what causes dyspnoea in asthma
orthopnoea
English
Alternative forms
- orthopnea, orthopnœa
Etymology
From ortho- +? -pnoea, from Ancient Greek ????????? (orthópnoia, “breathing only in an upright posture”), from ????? (orthós, “straight”) + ???? (pno?, “breath”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r???pni?/, /?r???pni?/, /?r??p?ni??/
Noun
orthopnoea (usually uncountable, plural orthopnoeas or orthopnoeae)
- Shortness of breath when lying flat, causing the person to have to sleep propped up in bed or sitting in a chair.
Derived terms
- orthopnoeic
See also
- dyspnoea
orthopnoea From the web:
- orthopnoea what does it mean
- what is orthopnoea in medical terms
- what causes orthopnoea
- what does orthopnoea
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