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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)

  1. 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

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orthopnoeae

English

Noun

orthopnoeae pl

  1. plural of orthopnoea
    • 1655, John Goodyer [tr.], The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides…Englished by John Goodyer (1933 reprint, ed. Robert Theodore Gunther, Hafner Pub. Co.), page 201
      It helps those which are Liver-sick, and coughes, & ye Orthopnoeae, the quantitie of a spoonefull thereof being taken with hony, and it doth subducere alvum.

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