dyspnea

dyspnea

English

Alternative forms

• dyspnoea (UK)
• dyspnœa (obsolete)

Etymology

From dys- +‎ -pnea, from Latin dyspnoea, from δύσπνοια (dúspnoia, “difficult breathing”), compound of δυσ- (dus-, “difficult, bad, unfortunate”) and πνοή (pnoḗ, “breeze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪsp.ni.ə/, /dɪspˈniːə/

Noun

dyspnea (countable and uncountable, plural dyspneas)

1. (pathology, North American spelling) Difficult or labored respiration; shortness of breath.
   • 1655, Lazarus Riverius [i.e., Lazare Rivière], “Of Asthma, or Difficulty of Breathing”, in Nicholas Culpeper, Abdiah Cole, and William Rowland, transl., The Practice of Physick, […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], OCLC 228726543, 7th book (Of the Diseases of the Breast), page 148:

     In a Diſpnœa, the breath is thick, vvithout noiſe or anhelation, and vvith leſs trouble.

Synonyms

• shortness of breath
• breathlessness

Translations

difficult respiration

Bulgarian: затруднено дишане n (zatrudneno dišane) Catalan: dispnea f Chinese: Mandarin: 呼吸困難／呼吸困难 (zh) (hūxī kùnnán) Czech: dušnost (cs) f Finnish: hengenahdistus, dyspnea (fi) French: dyspnée (fr) f, essoufflement (fr) Georgian: დისპნოე (ka) (disṗnoe) German: Dyspnoe (de) f, Atemnot (de) f Greek: δύσπνοια (el) f (dýspnoia) Hungarian: légszomj (hu) Icelandic: mæði f Italian: dispnea (it) f, fame d'aria, mancanza di fiato f, mancanza di respiro f Japanese: 呼吸困難 (こきゅうこんなん, kokyū konnan) Latvian: aizdusa f Luxembourgish: Otemnout f Persian: تنگی نفس‎ (tangi-e nafas) Polish: duszność (pl) f Portuguese: falta de ar f, dispneia (pt) f, abafação (pt) f Russian: оды́шка (ru) f (odýška), диспно́э (ru) n (dispnóe), затруднённое дыха́ние n (zatrudnjónnoje dyxánije) Serbo-Croatian: dispnea, kratak dah, zaduha (sh), dispneja (sh) Spanish: disnea (es) f, falta de aire f, falta de aliento f Swedish: dyspné, andtäppa (sv) c Tagalog: paghihirap sa paghinga Turkish: nefes darlığı (tr)

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Interlingua

Noun

dyspnea (uncountable)

1. dyspnea

Related terms

• dyspneic