Definition of Hyperpnea

1. Noun. Energetic (deep and rapid) respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or various disorders.


Definition of Hyperpnea

1. Noun. (medicine) Deep and rapid respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or various disorders. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hyperpnea

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Medical Definition of Hyperpnea

1. Breathing which is deeper and more rapid than expected. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperpnea

hyperplastic
hyperplastic arteriosclerosis
hyperplastic cholecystosis
hyperplastic gastric polyp
hyperplastic gingivitis
hyperplastic graft
hyperplastic inflammation
hyperplastic osteoarthritis
hyperplastic polyp
hyperplasticity
hyperploid
hyperploidies
hyperploids
hyperploidy
hyperpluralism
hyperpnea (current term)
hyperpneas
hyperpneic
hyperpnœa
hyperpnœic
hyperpolarisation
hyperpolarisations
hyperpolarise
hyperpolarised
hyperpolarises
hyperpolarising
hyperpolarizabilities
hyperpolarizability
hyperpolarizable
hyperpolarization

Literary usage of Hyperpnea

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

1. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"Dyspnea, hyperpnea, Apnea.—By the term dyspnea in its widest sense "^_^j£flH _fl"v n"f"'"nl'lp ... hyperpnea ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"Also the assumption has been made that hyperpnea is solely the result of acidosis, without regard for the simple clinical observation that the hyperpnea of ..."

3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"extreme types, one the gradual and the other the abrupt transition between hyperpnea and apnea, although there are many intermediate forms; (2) circulatory ..."

4. Therapeutic Gazette (1917)
"Hence we may have cyanosis, and consequently very formidable effects from oxygen want, without marked hyperpnea. The gray look of the patient's face will be ..."

5. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1917)
"The hyperpnea, therefore, represents the increased pulmonary ventilation, the object of which is to eliminate carbon dioxid from the blood. ..."

6. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"He believed that the Utter may be explained by loss of COs, through hyperpnea, exposure of intestines, etc. This may be one of the factors but it is ..."

7. The Diseases of infancy and childhood: For the Use of Students and by Luther Emmett Holt (1917)
"It has been shown that accompanying t lie hyperpnea there is a low carbon dioxid tension in the alveolar air; that the greater the hyperpnea, the lower the ..."

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