shortness of breath

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Noun

shortness of breath

1. Difficulty in breathing.

   Synonyms: SOB (initialism), breathlessness, dyspnea, dyspnoea

   • 2015 July 22, Reshma M. Khan et al., “Embolic Stroke as the Initial Manifestation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus”, in Case Reports in Rheumatology‎^[1], volume 2015, →DOI:

     Review of systems was positive for unintentional weight gain of 13.5 kilograms in the last eight months, excessive fatigue, fever, difficulty focusing, one episode of painful oral ulcer on the roof of her mouth, change in the hair texture with nonscarring alopecia, shortness of breath with exertion, and constipation.

Related terms

• short of breath
• short-winded

Translations

dyspnea

• Armenian: հևոց (hy) (hewocʻ), շնչարգելություն (šnčʻargelutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: təngnəfəslik
• Basque: arnasestu, itolarri
• Bulgarian: затруднено дишане (zatrudneno dišane)
• Catalan: dispnea f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 呼吸困難 / 呼吸困难 (zh) (hūxī kùnnán)

• Czech: dušnost (cs) f
• Danish: åndenød (da), vejrtrækningsbesvær
• Dhivehi: ނޭވާ ކުރުވުން (nēvā kuruvun̊)
• Dutch: benauwdheid (nl) f, ademnood (nl) f or m
• Estonian: hingeldus
• Finnish: hengenahdistus, hengitysvaikeus
• French: souffle court m, dyspnée (fr) f
• Galician: dispnea (gl) f
• Georgian: დისპნოე (ka) (disṗnoe)
• German: Kurzatmigkeit (de) f, Atemnot (de) f, Atemlosigkeit (de) f, Dyspnoe (de) f
• Greek: δύσπνοια (el) (dýspnoia)
• Guaraní: ahógo (gn)
• Hungarian: légszomj (hu), nehézlégzés
• Italian: fame d'aria, dispnea (it)
• Japanese: 呼吸困難 (ja) (こきゅうこんなん, kokyū konnan), 息切れ (ja) (いきぎれ, ikigire)
• Kannada: ಕಟ್ಟುಸಿರು (kn) (kaṭṭusiru)
• Kazakh: ентікпе (entıkpe)
• Korean: 호흡곤란(呼吸困難) (hoheupgollan)
• Kyrgyz: демигүү (ky) (demigüü)
• Latin: dyspnoea f
• Latvian: aizdusa f
• Macedonian: оте́жнато ди́шење n (otéžnato díšenje)
• Malay: lelah (ms), sesak nafas (ms)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: åndenød

  Nynorsk: andenød, andenaud

• Persian: تنگی نفس (tangi-ye nafas)
• Polish: duszność (pl) f
• Portuguese: dispneia (pt), abafação (pt)
• Quechua: sasa samay
• 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
• Swedish: dyspné, andnöd (sv), andfåddhet (sv) c
• Tagalog: paghihirap sa paghinga
• Telugu: ఆయాసం (te) (āyāsaṁ)
• Turkish: nefes darlığı (tr)
• Ukrainian: зади́шка f (zadýška), диспно́е n (dyspnóe), утру́днене ди́хання n (utrúdnene dýxannja)
• Walloon: tanfla (wa), pupa (wa), coûtresse d' alinne
• Welsh: diffyg anadl m