n.
Difficulty in breathing, often associated with lung or heart disease and resulting in shortness of breath. Also called air hunger.
[Latin dyspnoea, from Greek duspnoia : dus-, dys- + pnoiā, -pnoia, breathing.]
dyspneic dysp·ne'ic (-nē'ĭk) adj.
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