Definition of Dyspnoea

1. Noun. Difficult or labored respiration.

Exact synonyms: Dyspnea
Generic synonyms: Symptom
Specialized synonyms: Orthopnea, Breathlessness, Shortness Of Breath, Sob
Derivative terms: Dyspneal, Dyspnoeal

Definition of Dyspnoea

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of dyspnea) ¹

2. Noun. (alternative spelling of dyspnea) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dyspnoea

1. dyspnea [n -S] : DYSPNOIC [adj] - See also: dyspnea

Medical Definition of Dyspnoea

1. Shortness of breath, difficult or laboured breathing. Origin: Gr. Dyspnoia = difficulty of breathing This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dyspnoea

dyspituitarism
dysplasia
dysplasia epiphysialis multiplex
dysplasias
dysplastic
dysplastic nevi
dysplastic nevus
dysplastic nevus syndrome
dyspna
dyspnea
dyspneal
dyspneas
dyspneic
dyspnoea (current term)
dyspnoeal
dyspnoeas
dyspnoeic
dyspnoic
dyspraxia
dyspraxic
dyspraxics
dyspropterin
dysprosian
dysprosium
dysprosiums
dysproteinaemia
dysproteinaemic
dysproteinaemic retinopathy

Literary usage of Dyspnoea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Cardiac dyspnoea may be associated with two entirely different phases of arterial ... and at the same time to relieve the subjective sensations of dyspnoea. ..."

2. Medical diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine. A Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1895)
"The symptoms which it is proposed more specially to sift are dyspnoea, ... dyspnoea means difficulty of breathing. It is accompanied mostly by a sense of ..."

3. A Manual of the practice of medicine: Prepared Especially for Students by Arthur Albert Stevens (1892)
"dyspnoea.—dyspnoea implies difficult breathing with or without sin increase in ... dyspnoea which is so severe as to necessitate a sitting posture is termed ..."

4. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Lungs: Including the Principles by Walter Hayle Walshe (1860)
"I mean by nervous dyspnoea painful respiration, characterized subjectively by distressing want of breath, though air freely enters the air-passages—while ..."

5. An American Text-book of Physiology by William Henry Howell (1900)
"the head : when the blood was laden with CO2 marked dyspnoea result«l ... While dyspnoea may be caused by the respiration of an atmosphere either deficient ..."

6. On the wasting diseases of infants and children by Eustace Smith (1899)
"As a rule the dyspnoea affects both inspiration and expiration, although it is ... Exertion of any kind increases the dyspnoea. The voice is unaffected. ..."

7. Clinical Diagnosis: The Bacteriological, Chemical, and Microscopical by Rudolf Jaksch von Wartenhorst, James Cagney (1897)
"Blood-changes in dyspnoea.—All conditions which interfere with the giving off of CO., ... The clinical symptoms of dyspnoea do not fall within our province. ..."

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