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Definition: Dyspnoea |
DyspnoeaNoun1. Difficult or labored respiration. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dyspnoea" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Difficult or laboured 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. | |
Synonym: DyspnoeaSynonym: dyspnea (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fatigue | Noun: fatigue; weariness; yawning, drowsiness; lassitude, tiredness, fatigation, exhaustion; sweat; dyspnoea. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dyspnoea |
| English words defined with "dyspnoea": Dyspnoic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dyspnoea": bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis, bovine respiratory disease, bovine respiratory disease complex ♦ contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, contagious caprine/ovine pleuropneumonia, contagious ovine pleuropneumonia ♦ haemorrhagic bovine septicaemia, haemorrhagic septicaemia, haemorrhagic septicaemia of cattle ♦ Mycoplasma mycoides var.capri infection ♦ Pasteurella multocida infection, pasteurellosis of cattle, pneumonic pasteurellosis, pullorum disease of chicks ♦ septicaemic pasteurellosis ♦ transit fever, transit pneumonia ♦ white diarrhoea of chicks. (references) |
| "Dyspnoea" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dyspnoea" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 48 | 49,194 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
dyspnoea | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dyspnoea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | aamborstigheid (asthma, dyspnea, shortness, shortness of breath, wheeziness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | بحة في الصوت (frog, hoarseness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | затруднено дишане. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | astma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dyspnoe (dyspnea), dyspnø, aandenoed (dyspnea, respiratory depression). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kortademigheid (dyspnea), ademnood (dyspnea), dyspnoe (dyspnea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | spirmanko (dyspnea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dyspnée (dyspnea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dyspnoe (Dyspnea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δύσπνοια (breathlessness, puffiness, pursiness, short-windedness, wheeziness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | légzési zavarok. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dispnea (dyspnea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | toghtey (choke, choking, clog, clogging, foul, garrotte, jugulate; strangling, strangle, strangulation, throttle, throttling), peeaghane (hoarseness, nasal congestion, stuffiness, wheeze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yspnoeaday dispneia (dyspnea). (various references) dispnee. (various references) одышка (pant, short wind, shortness of breath, wheeze). (various references) disnea (dyspnea). (various references) wer'ati. (various references) andtäppa. (various references) solunum güçlüğü. (various references) задишка (breathlessness, pant, wheeze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dyspnoea": dyspnoeas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "dyspnoea" (pronounced 'Dysp*n[oe]"a'): Quinoa. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-o-p-s-y" | |
-1 letter: dapsone, dyspnea, noyades. | |
-2 letters: anodes, doyens, noyade, paeons, soaped, spayed, yapons. | |
-3 letters: aeons, anode, apods, aspen, deans, donas, donsy, dopas, dopes, dopey, doyen, dynes, napes, neaps, nodes, nosed, nosey, opens, paeon, pandy, paned, panes, pansy, paseo, payed, peans, pends, peons, peony, poesy, ponds, pones, posed, psoae, sandy, saned, sedan, sepoy, sneap, soapy, sonde. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-o-p-s-y" | |
+1 letter: dyspnoeas. | |
+2 letters: pyranoside, syncopated. | |
+3 letters: handyperson, hydrophanes, hydroplanes, polyandries, pyranosides. | |
+4 letters: dispensatory, handypersons. | |
+5 letters: encyclopedias, postsecondary, pyridoxamines. | |
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