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Definition of Dyspnoeal
1. Adjective. Not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty. "Followed the match with breathless interest"
Similar to: Asphyxiating, Smothering, Suffocating, Suffocative, Blown, Pursy, Short-winded, Winded
Also: Unventilated
Antonyms: Breathing
Derivative terms: Breathlessness, Dyspnea, Dyspnoea
Definition of Dyspnoeal
1. Adjective. Pertaining to, or of the nature of dyspnoea; in connexion with dyspnoea. ¹
2. Adjective. (alternative form of dyspnoeal) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dyspnoeal
Literary usage of Dyspnoeal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1881)
"He complained chiefly of the dyspnoeal seizures, recurring almost every night,
... The dyspnoeal attacks and the wheezing were relieved but returned at ..."
2. Birmingham Medical Review (1891)
"Although I think it extremely unlikely that she would have suffocated in one of
her dyspnoeal attacks, I yet felt justified in giving relief by what may ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1897)
"... (2) digestive; (3) cardiac and dyspnoeal; (4) cerebro-spinal and neurotic; (5)
psychic; (6) of physical fatigue; (7) genito-urinary; (8) febrile and ..."
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