What is "dyspnea"

Usage examples of "dyspnea".

They were nearly all suffering from overpowering dyspnea, two were dead, and two were missing.

Quoted by Ashhurst, Hunter recorded a case of gunshot wound, in which, after penetrating the stomach, bowels, and diaphragm the ball lodged in the thoracic cavity, causing no difficulty in breathing until shortly before death, and even then the dyspnea was mechanical--from gaseous distention of the intestines.

The dyspnea augmented during the night, and there was a whistling sound with each respiratory movement.

Tracheotomy was performed but the dyspnea continued, showing that the foreign body was lodged below the incision.

The blood of one of the cut vessels entered the trachea and caused an extra paroxysm of dyspnea, but the clots of blood were removed by curved forceps.

The cicatrix was plainly visible, but the man said he had been able to perform his daily labors, although at the present time suffering from intense dyspnea and anasarca.

Kugler recites the description of the case of an arrow-wound of the thorax, complicated by frightful dyspnea and blood in the pleural cavity and in the bronchi, with recovery.

There was no evidence of any fracture, but the man suffered greatly from dyspnea, pain between the shoulders, and collapse.

He wants something to relieve his pain, to mitigate the anguish of dyspnea, to bring back motion and sensibility to the dead limb, to still the tortures of neuralgia.

Auscultation would reveal dyspnea, rich in rales, also tachypnea, suggesting mediastinal crunch.

There is nothing violent, no dyspnea, no pain, no obvious changes in breathing or circulation.

In mid trip he had experienced an attack of acute dyspnea, an inability to breathe.

After the dyspnea has passed the edges of the wound should be brought together with sutures.