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Definition of Dyspnoeic
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 Dyspnoeic
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of dyspneic) ¹
2. Adjective. (alternative spelling of dyspnoeic) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dyspnoeic
Literary usage of Dyspnoeic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of general or experimental pathology for students and practitioners by Walter Sydney Lazarus-Barlow (1904)
"The pause he ascribed to a temporary hyper-oxygenation of the blood as the result
of the dyspnoeic respiration. This ingenious hypothesis Traube ..."
2. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1900)
"There may also be a non-dyspnoeic diabetic coma and an abortive diabetic coma,
or the true dyspnoeic diabetic coma, in which the most prominent symptom is ..."
3. The Journal of Physiology by Physiological Society (Great Britain). (1889)
"... wears off and the animal breathes rhythmically though it is somewhat dyspnoeic.
... in the breathing that the animal of necessity becomes dyspnoeic. ..."
4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1898)
"When signs of an approaching dyspnoeic attack were observed the injection was
repeated. As a result the dyspnoea generally disappeared in the course of ..."
5. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"If now the respiratory interchange of the 'feeder' be interfered with, the 'fed'
animal makes dyspnoeic movements, whereas interference with its own ..."
6. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1908)
"Usually, however, the characteristic grunting expiration is present, and also a
somewhat dyspnoeic (labored) respiration which directs our attention to the ..."
7. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann (1912)
"... and also a somewhat dyspnoeic (labored) respiration which directs our attention
to the lungs. One must make it a rule to make daily examinations of the ..."
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