dyspnoea

/ dɪspˈniːə /

noun

1. difficulty in breathing or in catching the breath Compare eupnoea

Other Word Forms

• dyspnoeal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of dyspnoea¹

C17: via Latin from Greek duspnoia, from _dys- + pnoē breath, from pnein to breathe

Example Sentences

Each of the victims suffered from "malaise, paleness, fatigue, anorexia, dyspnoea and weight loss," accompanied by a trance-like, delirious state, according to the study.

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With the advance of the disease dyspnoea supervenes, and nervous disorder is shown by the extreme weakness, anxiety, sleeplessness, troubled dreams, nocturnal delirium, dilated pupils, and even coma.

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Two hours later the boy became conscious and complained of great thirst and dyspnoea.

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The seizure may be accompanied by convulsions, and death has occurred from dyspnoea.

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The little patient was a girl of about four years of age, who on the fifth or sixth day of a severe laryngeal diphtheria developed symptoms of laryngeal stenosis, with great dyspnoea.

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