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English
Etymology
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’).
Pronunciation
Noun
dyspnea (countable and uncountable, plural dyspneas) (American spelling, Canadian spelling)
- (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 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.
Derived terms
- apnea, apnoea, apnœa
- apneic, apnoeic, apnœic
- bradypnea, bradypnoea, bradypnœa
- bradypneic, bradypnoeic, bradypnœic
- eupnea, eupnoea, eupnœa
- eupneic, eupnoeic, eupnœic
- hyperpnea, hyperpnoea, hyperpnœa
- hyperpneic, hyperpnoeic, hyperpnœic
- orthopnea, orthopnoea, orthopnœa
- orthopneic, orthopnoeic, orthopnœic
- platypnea, platypnoea, platypnœa
- polypnea, polypnoeia, polypnœia
- polypneic, polypnoeic, polypnœic
- tachypnea, tachypnoea, tachypnœa
- tachypneic, tachypnoeic, tachypnœic
- trepopnea, trepopnoea, trepopnœa
Translations
difficult or laboured respiration
- Afrikaans: aamborstigheid
- Azerbaijani: təngnəfəslik
- Bulgarian: затруднено дишане n (zatrudneno dišane)
- Catalan: dispnea f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 呼吸困難 / 呼吸困难 (zh) (hūxī kùnnan)
- Czech: dušnost (cs) f
- Danish: åndenød (da) c
- Dutch: aamborstigheid (nl) f, ademnood (nl) m or f
- Finnish: dyspnea (fi), hengenahdistus, hengitysvaikeus
- French: dyspnée (fr) f, essoufflement (fr) m
- Georgian: დისპნოე (ka) (disṗnoe)
- German: Dyspnoe (de) f, Atembeschwerde f (chiefly in the plural), Atemnot (de) f, Kurzatmigkeit (de) f
- Greek: δύσπνοια (el) f (dýspnoia)
- Ancient Greek: δῠ́σπνοιᾰ f (dŭ́spnoiă)
- Hungarian: légszomj (hu)
- Icelandic: mæði f
- Ido: anhelo (io)
- Indonesian: dispnèa
- Interlingua: dyspnea
- Italian: dispnea (it) f, fame d'aria, mancanza di fiato f, mancanza di respiro f
- Japanese: 呼吸困難 (ja) (こきゅうこんなん, kokyū konnan)
- Latvian: aizdusa f
- Luxembourgish: Otemnout f
- Macedonian: оте́жнато ди́шење n (otéžnato díšenje)
- Persian: تنگی نفس (tangi-e nafas)
- Polish: duszność (pl) f, jaducha f (dialectal, obsolete), zadyszka (pl) f
- Portuguese: dispneia (pt) f, abafação (pt) f, falta de ar f
- Romanian: dispnee (ro) f
- Russian: диспно́э (ru) n (dispnóe), оды́шка (ru) f (odýška), затруднённое дыха́ние n (zatrudnjónnoje dyxánije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: диспнеа f, диспнѐја f, кра̀так да̏х m, за́духа f
- Roman: dispnea f, dispnèja (sh) f, kràtak dȁh m, záduha (sh) f
- Spanish: disnea (es) f, falta de aire f, falta de aliento f
- Swedish: dyspné ?, andtäppa (sv) c
- Tagalog: paghihirap sa paghinga
- Turkish: nefes darlığı (tr)
- Ukrainian: зади́шка f (zadýška)
- Welsh: dyspnea m
- Xhosa: iphika
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Pronunciation
Noun
dyspnea
- (pathology) dyspnea
Declension
Synonyms
Interlingua
Noun
dyspnea (uncountable)
- dyspnea