dyspnoea
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Etymology
Origin of dyspnoea
C17: via Latin from Greek duspnoia, from dys- + pnoē breath, from pnein to breathe
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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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Frequent spells of croupy cough and a certain degree of dyspnoea are often observed for years afterward.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Sometimes a kind of dyspnoea common in advanced disease of the heart, especially in mitral lesion with dilatation, has been confounded with this.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
From this date the dyspnoea became more urgent, and death occurred at 4 P.M. on the 23d.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
It is of course diagnosticated without difficulty from the sporadic catarrhal fevers, which lack the characteristic depression, neuralgic and rheumatoid pains, the irritative cough, dyspnoea, and so on.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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