hypocapnia
English
Etymology
From hypo- + capn- + -ia; more at capno- § Etymology.
Noun
hypocapnia (uncountable)
- (medicine) A state of diminished carbon dioxide in the blood.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 69:
- The patient Ms. Gompert seemed both to be fighting for breath and to be breathing rapidly enough to induce hypocapnia […]
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state of reduced carbon dioxide in the blood
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