dyspnea

• dyspnoea (UK)
• dyspnœa (obsolete)

From dys- +‎ -pnea, from Latin dyspnoea, from δύσπνοια (dúspnoia, “difficult breathing”), compound of δυσ- (dus-, “difficult, bad, unfortunate”) and πνοή (pnoḗ, “breeze”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪsp.ni.ə/, /dɪspˈniːə/

dyspnea (countable and uncountable, plural dyspneas)

1. (pathology, North American spelling) Difficult or labored respiration; shortness of breath.
   • 1655, Lazarus Riverius [i.e., Lazare Rivière], “Of Asthma, or Difficulty of Breathing”, in Nicholas Culpeper, Abdiah Cole, and William Rowland, transl., The Practice of Physick, […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], OCLC 228726543, 7th book (Of the Diseases of the Breast), page 148:

     In a Diſpnœa, the breath is thick, vvithout noiſe or anhelation, and vvith leſs trouble.

• shortness of breath
• breathlessness

• Pandeys

dyspnea (uncountable)

1. dyspnea

• dyspneic