dyspnea
Example Sentences
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“Asthma, pneumonia, dyspnea, bronchitis, shortness of breath,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2016
The growing uterus exerts upward pressure on the diaphragm, decreasing the volume of each inspiration and potentially causing shortness of breath, or dyspnea.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The pain and resultant dyspnea kept the boy out of school for more than a month.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 28, 2011
Of cancer of the lungs the constant symptoms seem to be: pain, dyspnea, cough, weakness, loss of weight, cachexia, fever, anorexia.
From Time Magazine Archive
There may be dyspnea and a sense of anguish accompanied with a rapid and feeble pulse.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
