obesity hypoventilation syndrome

English

Noun

obesity hypoventilation syndrome (countable and uncountable, plural obesity hypoventilation syndromes)

  1. (medicine) A condition in which a severely overweight person fails to breathe rapidly or deeply enough, resulting in low blood oxygen levels and high blood carbon dioxide levels.
    Synonym: Pickwickian syndrome
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