apnoea
US apnea
/ (æpˈnɪə) /
a temporary inability to breathe
Origin of apnoea
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How to use apnoea in a sentence
This succession of dozing apnoea and waking dyspnoea belongs to a late stage of heart disease, and usually ends in death.
Later, when the danger to life from apnoea becomes more imminent, a hissing or whistling sound succeeds.
Their paralysis is very ominous, and may prove fatal in a short time from apnoea.
There appears to be a complete paralysis, and death from apnoea seems to be imminent.
In occasional instances, chiefly in children, it terminates fatally by apnoea from extension of the membrane into the larynx.
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