dyspnea
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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
There is dyspnea on slight exertion, possibly some precordial distress, slight edema of the ankles and lower legs and possibly scanty urine.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
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