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Issue of sleeping adults involving open chops
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apnoea
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n. (context British spelling English) (alt form of apnea English)
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apnea \apnea\ n. 1. transient cessation of respiration. [Also spelled apnoea .]
Usage examples of apnoea.
Deficiency of oxygen is the cause of apnoea, and sometimes the red corpuscles themselves are so few, worn out, or destroyed, that they cannot carry sufficient oxygen, and the consequence is that the patient becomes short of breath, and when a fatal degeneration of the corpuscles ensues, he dies of asphyxia.
She had received the correct dose and anyway, you often did get this period of apnoea with pentothal.