dyspnea
Difficult or laboured breathingDifficult or laboured breathing.
» Dyspnea is when a person has shortness of breath.
Meaning
1 senses(Canada, US, countable, uncountable)Difficult or laboured breathing.
Dyspnoe, Atembeschwerde, Atemnot
диспно́эdispnóe, оды́шкаodýška, затруднённое дыха́ниеzatrudnjónnoje dyxánije
зади́шкаzadýška
difficult or labored respiration
Examples
3 sentencesDyspnea is when a person has shortness of breath.
She died of dyspnea.
Dyspnea is not a disease, it is a symptom caused by diseases such as asthma, heart problems, and lung diseases.
Translations
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Origin
Variant spelling of dyspnoea, a learned borrowing from Latin dyspnoea (“difficulty breathiVariant spelling of dyspnoea, a learned borrowing from Latin dyspnoea (“difficulty breathing”), from Ancient Greek δῠ́σπνοιᾰ (dŭ́spnoiă, “difficulty breathing, shortness of breath”), from δῠ́σπνοος (dŭ́spnoos, “short of breath, breathing with difficulty”, adjective) (also δῠ́σπνους (dŭ́spnous) by contraction) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, suffix forming abstract nouns). Δῠ́σπνοος (Dŭ́spnoos) is derived from δῠσ- (dŭs-, prefix meaning ‘bad; difficult, hard; unfortunate’) + πνέω (pnéō, “to blow; to breathe”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe; to pant”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as dys- (prefix meaning ‘abnormal; difficult; disease’) + -pnea (suffix meaning ‘breathing, respiration’).
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Forms
plural: dyspneasSynonyms
4 synonyms- difficult or labored respiration:dyspnoea
Word family
19 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable