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DYSPNEA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Difficult or labored respiration

Synonyms:

dyspnea; dyspnoea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("dyspnea" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dyspnea"):

orthopnea (form of dyspnea in which the person can breathe comfortably only when standing or sitting erect; associated with asthma and emphysema and angina pectoris)

breathlessness; shortness of breath; SOB (a dyspneic condition)

Derivation:

dyspneal (not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Signs and symptoms appear early in life and include dyspnea, wheezing, and cyanosis.

(Congenital Lobar Emphysema, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include respiratory distress, recurrent pulmonary infections, dyspnea, and failure to thrive.

(Congenital Cystic Adenomatoid Malformation of the Lung, NCI Thesaurus)

Ordinary physical activity does not cause undue fatigue, palpitations, or dyspnea.

(New York Heart Association Class I, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Ordinary physical activity results in fatigue, palpitations, or dyspnea.

(New York Heart Association Class II, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Less than ordinary activity causes fatigue, palpitations, or dyspnea.

(New York Heart Association Class III, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

It manifests with dyspnea and cyanosis and may lead to cardiovascular shock.

(Acute Respiratory Failure, NCI Thesaurus)

Less than ordinary activity causes fatigue, palpitation, or dyspnea.

(New York Heart Association Class, NCI Thesaurus)

It is manifested during infancy with cyanosis, dyspnea, and rapidly progressing heart failure.

(Aortic Valve Atresia, NCI Thesaurus)

The Chlamydia cause respiratory infection manifested with fever, malaise, cough, dyspnea, sore throat, photophobia and headaches.

(Chlamydia Psittaci Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

A standardized rating scale developed by Mahler et al in 1984, which is a general scale used to measure the rating of severity of dyspnea at a single state (as baseline).

(Baseline Dyspnea Index Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)