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Definition of Dyspnoea
1. Noun. Difficult or labored respiration.
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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dyspnoea
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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