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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

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 James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Inspection of the root of the neck for jugular pulsations and examination of the pulse with the patient's evident dyspneic, cyanotic, edematous condition settles the diagnosis.

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

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 Louis Marshall Warfield

A dyspneic patient should never be given a general anesthetic.

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




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