dyspnea

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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

General anesthesia is contraindicated because of the dyspnea apt to be present, and because the struggles of the patient might cause a dislodgment of the laryngeal intruder and aspiration to a lower level.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier