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dyspneic

[disp-nee-ik] / dɪspˈni ɪk /


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Mayfair milliners hastily sketched up a line of fashionable "smoggles" in tulle, velvet and chiffon to please the modish dyspneic.

From Time Magazine Archive

No drug is of such value in the nocturnal dyspneic attacks that occur in the late stages of arteriosclerosis when the heart or the kidneys are failing.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

If the child is but slightly dyspneic, the obstructing part of the growth is first removed without anesthesia, general or local; the remaining fungations are extirpated subsequently at a number of brief seances.

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

The posterior pharyngeal wall should be examined in all dyspneic children for the possible existence of retropharyngeal abscess.

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

I have had a physician patient who was very uncomfortable if alone on the streets of New York, even during the day, and whose symptoms at their worst were distinctly dyspneic or asthmatic.

From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)




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