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Definition: Dyspnea |
DyspneaNoun1. Difficult or labored respiration. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
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) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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."
Synonym: DyspneaSynonym: dyspnoea (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dyspnea |
| English words defined with "dyspnea": orthopnea. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dyspnea": Dyphylline ♦ Esophageal Atresia ♦ hog flu ♦ pig flu, pig influenza, Pneumonia, Pneumocystis carinii, Pulmonary Fibrosis ♦ Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human ♦ swine influenza ♦ TMA pulmonary disease-anemia syndrome, trimellitic anhydride pulmonary disease-anemia syndrome. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) | ||
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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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| 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 dispneia (dyspnoea). (various references) disnea (dyspnoea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dyspnea": dyspneal, dyspneas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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