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.

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 (hūxī kùnnan), 呼吸困难 (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
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• 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