dyspnea
Example Sentences
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“Asthma, pneumonia, dyspnea, bronchitis, shortness of breath,” she said.
From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2016
The growing uterus exerts upward pressure on the diaphragm, decreasing the volume of each inspiration and potentially causing shortness of breath, or dyspnea.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
The pain and resultant dyspnea kept the boy out of school for more than a month.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 28, 2011
Of cancer of the lungs the constant symptoms seem to be: pain, dyspnea, cough, weakness, loss of weight, cachexia, fever, anorexia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rapid, irregular, or difficult breathing is known as dyspnea, and in all such cases the animal has difficulty in obtaining as much oxygen as it requires.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
