dyspnea

A variant of dyspnoea, which is a learned borrowing from Latin dyspnoea (“difficulty breathing”), from Ancient Greek δῠ́σπνοιᾰ (dúspnoia, “difficulty breathing, shortness of breath”), from δῠσ- (dus-, prefix meaning ‘bad; difficult, hard; unfortunate’) + πνοή (pnoḗ, “breath”) + -ῐᾰ (-ia, suffix forming abstract nouns).[1] Πνοή (Pnoḗ) is derived from πνέω (pnéō, “to breathe”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe; to pant”)) + -η (-ē, suffix added to verbs to form action nouns). The English word is analysable as dys- (prefix meaning ‘abnormal; difficult; disease’) +‎ -pnea (suffix meaning ‘breathing, respiration’).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɪspˈniː.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪsp.ni.ə/
• Rhymes: -iːə
• Hyphenation: dys‧pnea

dyspnea (countable and uncountable, plural dyspneas) (American spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. (pathology) Difficult or laboured respiration; shortness of breath.

   Synonym: breathlessness

   Coordinate terms: apnea, bradypnea, eupnea, hyperpnea, orthopnea, platypnea, polypnea, tachypnea, trepopnea

   • 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, 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.

   • 1888, R[euben] Ludlam, “Lecture LIX. Ovariotomy.”, in Medical and Surgical Lectures on the Diseases of Women, a Clinical and Systematic Treatise. […], 6th edition, Chicago, Ill.: Halsey Brothers, →OCLC, page 962:

     During August the tumor again grew rapidly, causing dyspnœa, constipation and general malaise.

• dyspnoea (British spelling)
• dyspnœa (obsolete)

• dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspnœic
• dyspneal, dyspnoeal, dyspnœal

• shortness of breath on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Pandeys

dyspnea (uncountable)

1. dyspnea

• dyspneic