apnoea

/ æpˈnɪə /

noun

1. a temporary inability to breathe

Word History and Origins

Origin of apnoea¹

C18: from New Latin, from Greek apnoia, from a- ¹+ pnein to breathe

Example Sentences

This succession of dozing apnoea and waking dyspnoea belongs to a late stage of heart disease, and usually ends in death.

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Later, when the danger to life from apnoea becomes more imminent, a hissing or whistling sound succeeds.

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Their paralysis is very ominous, and may prove fatal in a short time from apnoea.

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There appears to be a complete paralysis, and death from apnoea seems to be imminent.

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In occasional instances, chiefly in children, it terminates fatally by apnoea from extension of the membrane into the larynx.

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