| NOUN | state | dyspnoea, dyspnea | difficult or labored respiration |
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| Meaning | Difficult or labored respiration. | |
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| Synonym | dyspnea | |
| Narrower | orthopnea | form of dyspnea in which the person can breathe comfortably only when standing or sitting erect |
| shortness of breath, SOB, breathlessness | A dyspneic condition | |
| Broader | symptom | (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease |
| Spanish | dipsnea, disnea, dispnea | |
| Catalan | dispnea | |
| Adjectives | dyspnoeal | not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty |
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