Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, difficulty of breathing; difficult or labored respiration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Difficulty of breathing.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
dyspnea .
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- noun difficult or labored respiration
- noun difficult or labored respiration
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Examples
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No signs of violence were to be discovered upon Sir Charles's person, and though the doctor's evidence pointed to an almost incredible facial distortion -- so great that Dr. Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was indeed his friend and patient who lay before him -- it was explained that that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnoea {2} and death from cardiac exhaustion.
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They form in the inferior parts when there is a collection of phlegm about the hypochondria; and in the upper when the continue soft and free of pain, and when dyspnoea having been present for a certain time, ceases without any obvious cause.
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And they are under the necessity of keeping the neck bent forward at the great vertebra, in order that their head may not hang downward; this, therefore, occasions great contraction of the pharynx by its inclination inward; for, even in those who are erect in stature, dyspnoea is induced by this bone inclining inward, until it be restored to its place.
On The Articulations 2007
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When in a fever not of the intermittent type dyspnoea and delirium come on, the case is mortal.
Aphorisms 2007
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In February, 2004, we saw a 40-year-old obese white woman who complained of dyspnoea shortness of breath. 5 days earlier, her appetite had decreased, and she had felt nauseous and had since vomited four to six times daily.
Michael R. Eades, M.D.: Low-carb diet takes one below the belt 2006
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In February, 2004, we saw a 40-year-old obese white woman who complained of dyspnoea shortness of breath. 5 days earlier, her appetite had decreased, and she had felt nauseous and had since vomited four to six times daily.
Low-carb diet takes one below the belt | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2006
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In my case, what was physically evident might equally well have been due to nervous spasms, to the first stages of tuberculosis, to asthma, to a toxi-alimentary dyspnoea with renal insufficiency, to chronic bronchitis, or to a complex state into which more than one of these factors entered.
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With the first warm weather, when the pear trees began to blossom, she suffered from dyspnoea.
Madame Bovary 2003
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Symptoms of HCN poisoning include respiratory dyspnoea, intense red conjunctive, frothing at the mouth, bloat, a staggering gait, convulsions and violent death.
Chapter 2 1994
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Symptoms of HCN poisoning are due to oxygen starvation at the cellular level and include laboured breathing (dyspnoea), intense red conjunctive, frothing at the mouth, bloat, convulsions and a staggering gait.
Chapter 4 1994
yarb commented on the word dyspnoea
Dying nobly? My sweet arse hole. One of them wrote verse. Verse! Write verse about this: a Left Inguinal Colostomy. Shit, blood, puke and a body no longer dependable, metastases, dyspnoea... I shut my eyes but weep under the lids.
- Peter Reading, C, 1984
July 23, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word dyspnoea
An odd English word that has a string of 3 consonants followed by three vowels. A call to Wordniks to find other examples of the "cccvvv" string in other words.
March 16, 2011