dyspnea

Variant 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).^[1] The English word is analysable as dys- (prefix meaning ‘abnormal; difficult; disease’) +‎ -pnea (suffix meaning ‘breathing, respiration’).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪspˈniː.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪsp.ni.ə/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -iːə
• Hyphenation: dys‧pnea

dyspnea (countable and uncountable, plural dyspneas) (American spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. (pathology) Difficult or laboured breathing.

   Synonyms: shortness of breath, SOB, breathlessness

   Coordinate terms: apnea, bradypnea, eupnea, hyperpnea, orthopnea, platypnea, polypnea, tachypnea, trepopnea

   • 1655, Lazarus Riverius [i.e., Lazare Rivière], “Of Asthma, or Difficulty of Breathing”, in Nicholas Culpeper, Abdiah Cole, and William Rowland, transl., The Practice of Physick, […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], →OCLC, 7th book (Of the Diseases of the Breast), page 148:

     In a Diſpnœa, the breath is thick, vvithout noiſe or anhelation, and vvith leſs trouble.

   • 1888, R[euben] Ludlam, “Lecture LIX. Ovariotomy.”, in Medical and Surgical Lectures on the Diseases of Women, a Clinical and Systematic Treatise. […], 6th edition, Chicago, Ill.: Halsey Brothers, →OCLC, page 962:

     During August the tumor again grew rapidly, causing dyspnœa, constipation and general malaise.

• dyspnoea (British spelling)
• dyspnœa (obsolete)

• dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspnœic
• dyspneal, dyspnoeal, dyspnœal

• shortness of breath on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Internationalism (see English dyspnea)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdys.pneɑ/, [ˈdys̠.pne̞ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ys.pneɑ
• Syllabification^(key): dys‧pne‧a, dysp‧ne‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): dys‧pnea, dysp‧nea

dyspnea

1. (pathology) dyspnea

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dyspnea (uncountable)

1. dyspnea

• dyspneic