Dyspnea

  

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Dyspnea

Definition: Dyspnea

Dyspnea

Noun

1. Difficult or labored respiration.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Dyspnea

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

Difficult or labored breathing.Back to Table of Contents. (references)

Health

Difficult or labored breathing. (references)

Medicine

Shortness of breath, air hunger. Source: European Union. (references)

Public Administration

Difficult or labored respiration. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Dyspnea

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Dyspnea (Latin dyspnoea, Greek dyspnoia from dyspnoos - short of breath) is perceived difficulty breathing or pain on breathing. It is a common symptom of a great many disorders, including emphysema, COPD, broken ribs, lung cancer, malignant hypertension, and so forth. Dyspnea may be due, as can be seen, to disorders within the lungs themselves, to disorders in the ribcage, to disorders in adjacent organs, to nervous system disorders, or to drugs and toxins.

Other terms for breathing malfunctions include tachypnea, which is too-rapid breathing, and bradypnea, which is too-slow breathing.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dyspnea."

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Synonym: Dyspnea

Synonym: dyspnoea (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dyspnea

English words defined with "dyspnea": orthopnea. (references)
Specialty definitions using "dyspnea": DyphyllineEsophageal Atresiahog flupig flu, pig influenza, Pneumonia, Pneumocystis carinii, Pulmonary FibrosisRespiratory Syncytial Virus, Humanswine influenzaTMA pulmonary disease-anemia syndrome, trimellitic anhydride pulmonary disease-anemia syndrome. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Dyspnea

DomainTitle

Books

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Non-Fiction Usage: Dyspnea

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Dyspnea - Shortness of breath. (references)

As the disease progresses, dyspnea becomes the major problem. (references)

Relaxation techniques may also reduce the perception of ventilatory effort and dyspnea. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dyspnea

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dyspnea

192

paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea

9

definition dyspnea

4

dyspnea exertion

4

dyspnea exertional

3

cause dyspnea

2

dyspnea symptom

2
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Modern Translation: Dyspnea

Language Translations for "dyspnea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

aamborstigheid (asthma, dyspnoea, shortness, shortness of breath, wheeziness). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ضيق التنفس. (various references)

   

Danish

  

dyspnoe (dyspnoea), aandenoed (dyspnoea, respiratory depression). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kortademigheid (dyspnoea), ademnood (dyspnoea). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

spirmanko (dyspnoea). (various references)

   

French

  

dyspnée (dyspnoea). (various references)

   

German

  

Dyspnoe (dyspnoea), kurzatmigkeit (breathlessness, puffiness, shortness of breath), Atemnot (difficulty in breathing). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

δύσπνοια (breathlessness, puffiness, pursiness, short-windedness, wheeziness). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קוצר שימ" (asthma). (various references)

   

Italian

  

dispnea (dyspnoea). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

呼吸困難 (labored breathing). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"きゅう""な" (labored breathing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yspneaday

   

Portuguese

  

dispneia (dyspnoea). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

disnea (dyspnoea). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Dyspnea

Derivations

Words beginning with "dyspnea": dyspneal, dyspneas. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dyspnea

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-p-s-y"

-1 letter: spayed.

-2 letters: aspen, deans, dynes, napes, neaps, pandy, paned, panes, pansy, payed, peans, pends, sandy, saned, sedan, sneap, spade, spaed, spean, spend, yeans.

-3 letters: ands, anes, aped, apes, apse, ayes, daps, days, dean, dens, deny, deys, dyes, dyne, easy, ends, espy, eyas, nape, naps, nays, neap, pads, pane, pans, pase, pays, pean, peas.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-p-s-y"
 

+1 letter: dyspneal, dyspneas, dyspnoea, synapsed.

 

+2 letters: dyspnoeas, ependymas, underpays, unsprayed.

 

+3 letters: amplidynes, dispensary, pyranoside, sandpapery, syncopated, underplays.

 

+4 letters: discrepancy, handyperson, hydrophanes, hydroplanes, polyandries, predynastic, pyranosides, stipendiary.

 

+5 letters: despairingly, discrepantly, dispensatory, handypersons, redisplaying.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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