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The medical term for hyperventilation is tachypnea (tack-IP-nee-ah) or hyperapnea. The normal respiratory rate in a healthy adult man is 12-20 breaths per minute. There may be slight individual variations, but a respiratory rate more than 50 is generally hyperapnea.Tachypnea is rapid, shallow breaths, and generally >30 if tachypneic.
Hyperapnea is rapid breathing but is deeper breathing than in tachynpnea. Tachy is the medical prefix for "fast", eg tachycardia is a fast heart rate.
Hyperventilating.
Rapid breathing is known as hyperventilation.
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∙ 16y agoabnormally fast (tachypnea), abnormally slow (technically termed bradypnea), or nonexistent (apnea).
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∙ 11y agoEupnea is the medical term meaning normal breathing
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∙ 11y agothe pattern of alternating periods of rapid breathing, and the absence of breathing is
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∙ 10y agoSpirometry
spri/o = breathing
-metry = process of measurement
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∙ 8y agoThe term is respiratory rate, usually expressed in terms of breaths per minute.
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∙ 13y agoRespiratory rate.
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∙ 11y agoEupnea
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