2. Noun. (alternative spelling of apnea) ¹
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Definition of Apnoea
1. apnea [n -S] : APNOEAL, APNOEIC [adj] - See also: apnea
Medical Definition of Apnoea
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Apnoea
Literary usage of Apnoea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Respiration by John Scott Haldane (1922)
"This interruption of inspiratory effort came to be interpreted as an apnoea, and
appears so if only inspiratory muscular movements are recorded, as, ..."
2. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1889)
"the apnoea was shorter and that the rise was generally less Mian when air was used
... Oxygen seemed neither to increase nor decrease this form of apnoea. ..."
3. A System of surgery: theoretical and practical v.5 by Timothy Holmes (1871)
"h many of the examples of death by apnoea cited in the above table, ...
is accelerated by thr iir> • action upon the body of the cause producing the apnoea. ..."
4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1906)
"A slow rise of blood pressure now followed, and apnoea was broken by a single
respiration about twenty seconds after the crest of the blood pressure wave ..."
5. Transactions by Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York (1879)
"apnoea from pulmonary oedema. Gastritis, simple acute, and gouty.—Shock. ...
apnoea from capillary bronchitis, convulsions or coma from cerebral congestion. ..."
6. Clinical essays by Benjamin Ward Richardson (1862)
"From bronchial apnoea, cardiac apnoea is differentiated : (a) In that it offers
no indication by the stethoscope of bronchial obstruction, no cooing sounds, ..."
7. A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Job Lewis Smith (1879)
"apnoea (Asphyxia) Neonatorum. IN the healthy infant, born under favorable
circumstances, the two important functions of life, respiration and circulation, ..."
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