platypnea
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
platy- + -pnea, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”) and πνοή (pnoḗ, “breath, breathing”).
Pronunciation[edit]
See full workup of the variants at Wikipedia > Shortness of breath > Collation of -pnea transcriptions.
Noun[edit]
platypnea (plural platypneas)
- (medicine) Shortness of breath that occurs when the patient is upright, that is, sufficient breathing only when lying flat.
Antonyms[edit]
Hypernyms[edit]
- (shortness of breath): dyspnea
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleth₂-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pnew-
- English terms prefixed with platy-
- English terms suffixed with -pnea
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
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