Definition of Dyspneic

1. Adjective. Not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty. "Followed the match with breathless interest"


Definition of Dyspneic

1. Adjective. Afflicted with dyspnea; possessing unhealthy breathing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dyspneic

1. dyspnea [adj] - See also: dyspnea

Medical Definition of Dyspneic

1. Out of breath; relating to or suffering from dyspnea. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dyspneic

dyspinealism
dyspituitarism
dysplasia
dysplasia epiphysialis multiplex
dysplasias
dysplastic
dysplastic nevi
dysplastic nevus
dysplastic nevus syndrome
dyspna
dyspnea
dyspneal
dyspneas
dyspneic (current term)
dyspnoea
dyspnoeal
dyspnoeas
dyspnoeic
dyspnoic
dyspraxia
dyspraxic
dyspraxics
dyspropterin
dysprosian
dysprosium
dysprosiums
dysproteinaemia
dysproteinaemic

Literary usage of Dyspneic

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

1. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"dyspneic respiration is quieted, and "air hunger" relieved. Toxic doses cause very marked decrease of excitability, rate, depth, and efficiency; ..."

2. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"In one group the dyspneic phase coincides with a fall of blood-pressure and a slowing of the pulse-rate. In the other group the reverse relations hold, ..."

3. Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson, Gustav Killian (1914)
"If the child is slightly dyspneic the obstructing part of the growth is first removed directly without anesthesia, general or local, and then the remaining ..."

4. A Text-book of Human Physiology: Including Histology and Microscopical by Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker (1905)
"If the factors interrupting the gaseous interchange persist, the stimulated respiration becomes dyspneic, and finally death occurs from asphyxia. ..."

5. Therapeutic Gazette (1897)
"Rooster, a small bubble of air injected; no apparent effect; then i Cc., the bird became somewhat dyspneic, acted just as a chicken that has run some ..."

6. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1918)
"In the experiments just described in which the subjects were made dyspneic by rebreathing air containing increasing amounts of carbon dioxid, one striking ..."

7. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"When the respiration becomes dyspneic it takes on a distinctly costal type, and Fitz and others have shown that for an equal increase in ..."

8. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1921)
"The result is that the athlete gets dyspneic less readily. The reverse holds in the man with ... His supply is lower than normal; he gets dyspneic sooner. ..."

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