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Definition of Dyspnea
1. Noun. Difficult or labored respiration.
Generic synonyms: Symptom
Specialized synonyms: Orthopnea, Breathlessness, Shortness Of Breath, Sob
Derivative terms: Dyspneal, Dyspnoeal
Definition of Dyspnea
1. Noun. (pathology) Difficult or labored (respiration). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dyspnea
1. labored breathing [n -S] : DYSPNEAL, DYSPNEIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Dyspnea
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dyspnea
Literary usage of Dyspnea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Differential diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1912)
"Inspiratory dyspnea is comparatively infrequent, and occurs especially as the
... If the obstruction is below the primary bronchi, we do not see dyspnea of ..."
2. Principles and Practice of Physical Diagnosis by jr John C Da Costa (1919)
"When dyspnea is striking, the respiratory movements are obviously embarrassed
... When the dyspnea is so urgent that the subject can breathe only when in an ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Medical Diagnosis for Students and Physicians by John Herr Musser (1913)
"An extreme degree of dyspnea is called orthopnea; infrequent breathing, ...
dyspnea is recognized by the increase in the rapidity of the chest movements, ..."
4. A Manual of the practice of medicine: Prepared Especially for Students by Arthur Albert Stevens (1908)
"Spasm of the laryngeal adductors is characterized by intense dyspnea and occurs in
... dyspnea.—dyspnea implies difficult breathing, with or without an ..."
5. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"Quiet and Forced Respiratory Movements; Eupnea and dyspnea. ... There are many
degrees of dyspnea, and doubtless in quiet breathing the amplitude of the ..."
6. A Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy and therapeutics by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1901)
"dyspnea. Morphine, hypodermically, the most efficient agent in relieving dyspnea
from cardiac disease, or any other form ; but if albumin in the urine it ..."
7. Transactions of the American Pediatric Society by American Pediatric Society (1905)
"dyspnea of peripheral nerve origin, neuritis presumably diphtheritic, ...
dyspnea of central origin, infectious transverse myelitis and paralysis of the ..."
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