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Difficult or labored respiration
Answer for the clue "Difficult or labored respiration ", 8 letters:
dyspnoea
Word definitions for dyspnoea in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. difficult or labored respiration [syn: dyspnea ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (obsolete spelling of dyspnea English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dyspnoea \Dysp*n[oe]"a\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? short of breath; pref. dys- ill, hard + ?, ?, breathing, ? to blow, breathe: cf. F. dyspn['e]e.] (Med.) Difficulty of breathing.
Usage examples of dyspnoea.
In heart disease there is often dyspnoea, or difficult breathing, but this is not of the nature of asthma, or phthisic.
Mortimer refused at first to believe that it was indeed his friend and patient who lay before him--it was explained that that is a symptom which is not unusual in cases of dyspnoea and death from cardiac exhaustion.
I arrived I had pretty well decided that an acute dyspnoea like this would probably be caused by a heart attack or some sudden allergy.