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apnœic

apnœic is the obsolete spelling of apneic.

Meaning of apneic

Adjective

apneic (comparative more apneic, superlative most apneic)

  1. Exhibiting or relating to apnea: no longer breathing
    • Rarely (in cases which trouble us all) our new tools find themselves applied to bodies which in any prior human era would have become apneic in seconds, pulseless in minutes, rigid in hours, and putrid in days[…].1994 March 11, Donna Bergen, “On Brain Death”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of apnœic

comparativemore apnœic
superlativemost apnœic

Questions about apnœic

What is apnœic the obsolete spelling of?
Apnœic is the obsolete spelling of apneic.

Words near apnœic in the dictionary

  1. apnoeic
  2. apnosticism
  3. APNS
  4. apnœa
  5. apnœal
  6. apnœic
  7. apo
  8. apo koinou
  9. apo-
  10. apoaequorin
  11. apoaequorins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apnœic (page history and authors); apneic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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