Cheyne-Stokes
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English
Etymology
From the names of Scottish physician John Cheyne (1777–1836) and Irish physician William Stokes (1804–1878).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tʃeɪnˈstəʊks/
- (General American) IPA(key): /tʃeɪnˈstoʊks/
Noun
- (medicine, attributively) An abnormal pattern of breathing involving apnea alternating with periods of compensatory hyperventilation and with smooth, gradual transitions between the two, characteristic of those in a coma or suffering cardiac or cerebral episodes.
- 1934, F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as chapter IX, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book III (Casualties: 1925), page 154:
- He recognized Cheyne-Stokes tendencies in his respiration—but like everything the symptom served only to turn him in toward his emotion.
Further reading
Cheyne-Stokes respiration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
