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apneic

/æpˈniːɪk/

apneic adjective: exhibiting or relating to apnea: no longer breathing.

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
    • In three animals, apneic episodes in the second minute of hypoxia necessitated termination of the hypoxic challenge.2000 September 15, Chris T. Bond et al., “Respiration and Parturition Affected by Conditional Overexpression of the Ca2 -Activated K Channel Subunit, SK3”, in Science, volume 289, number 5486, →DOI...

Forms of apneic

comparativemore apneic
superlativemost apneic

Origin of apneic

From apnea + -ic.

Words formed from apneic

Questions about apneic

What does apneic mean?
Apneic means exhibiting or relating to apnea: no longer breathing.
What part of speech is apneic?
Apneic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce apneic?
Apneic is pronounced /æpˈniːɪk/.

Words near apneic in the dictionary

  1. APMs
  2. APN
  3. apnea
  4. apneal
  5. apneas
  6. apneic
  7. apneist
  8. apneists
  9. apneumatic
  10. apneumatosis
  11. apneumone

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