2. Adjective. (alternative form of apnoeal) ¹
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Definition of Apnoeal
1. apnoea [adj] - See also: apnoea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apnoeal
Literary usage of Apnoeal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland by Academy of Medicine in Ireland (1891)
"During the apnoeal period the left heart is resting, contracting on small quantities
of blood, and acting in this condition feebly and quickly, ..."
2. The Diseases of the heart and the aorta by William Stokes (1855)
"... regularly diminish until the commencement of another apnoeal period. During the
height of the paroxysm the vesicular murmur becomes intensely puerile. ..."
3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1891)
"During the apnoeal period the left heart is resting, contracting on small quantities
of blood, and acting in this condition feebly and quickly, ..."
4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1890)
"The apnoeal periods were also irregular, some lasting half a minute, others only
ten or fifteen seconds. I have seen several such cases. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1891)
"The phases of the respiratory phenomena observed were as follows: (1) An apnoeal
period characterized by deep sleep, lividity of face, quick pulse, ..."
6. Makers of Modern Medicine by James Joseph Walsh (1907)
"... of which it seems capable, when the respirations, pursuing a descendant scale,
regularly diminished until the commencement of another apnoeal period. ..."
7. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1863)
"... hence the state of the child is that of asthenia, and, at least partial, syncope.
This, of course, is true only of the purely apnoeal, or apparently ..."
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