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Dyspnoea   Listen
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Dyspnoea  n.  (Med.) Difficulty of breathing.






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"Dyspnoea" Quotes from Famous Books



... axilliary lymphatics, which were distinctly swollen. The patient was delirious, was harrassed by terror, complained bitterly of pain, and had an exceedingly feeble, rapid heart action. There was marked dyspnoea, and all the signs of impending dissolution. I at once made free multiple incisions into all parts of the inflamed tissue, carrying two of my cuts through the wounds made by the fangs of the snake. In the arm these incisions were several inches long ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 • Various

... is often dyspnoea, or difficult breathing, but this is not of the nature of asthma, or phthisic. The condition of the lungs is readily understood. There being an obstruction to the free passage of the blood through ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... an almost incredible facial distortion—so great that Dr. Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was indeed his friend and patient who lay before him—it was explained that that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnoea and death from cardiac exhaustion. This explanation was borne out by the post-mortem examination, which showed long-standing organic disease, and the coroner's jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence. It is well that this is so, for it is obviously of the utmost importance ...
— Hound of the Baskervilles • Authur Conan Doyle

... Fatigue. — N. fatigue; weariness &c. 841; yawning, drowsiness &c. 683; lassitude, tiredness, fatigation|, exhaustion; sweat; dyspnoea. anhelation, shortness of breath; faintness; collapse, prostration, swoon, fainting, deliquium[Lat], syncope, lipothymy[obs3]; goneness[obs3]. V. be fatigued &c. adj.; yawn &c. (get sleepy) 683; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... of acne (pustules of the skin), a slight dyspnoea (difficulty in breathing) when mounting stairs, a blush of heat on the cheeks a quarter of an hour after luncheon, a violent craving for smoking after the repast, a feeling of sleepiness, which, however, quickly fades toward ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 • Various



Words linked to "Dyspnoea" :   dyspnoeal, sob, dyspnea, shortness of breath, breathlessness



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