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dyspnœa

dyspnœa is the archaic spelling of dyspnea.

Meaning of dyspnea

Noun

dyspnea (countable and uncountable, plural dyspneas)

  1. (Canada, US) Difficult or laboured breathing.
    • In a Diſpnœa, the breath is thick, vvithout noiſe or anhelation, and vvith leſs trouble.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: […]...

Forms of dyspnœa

pluraldyspnœas

Questions about dyspnœa

What is dyspnœa the archaic spelling of?
Dyspnœa is the archaic spelling of dyspnea.

Words near dyspnœa in the dictionary

  1. dyspnoea
  2. dyspnoeal
  3. dyspnoeas
  4. dyspnoeic
  5. dyspnoic
  6. dyspnœa
  7. dyspnœal
  8. dyspnœas
  9. dyspnœic
  10. dyspoiesis
  11. dyspractic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dyspnœa (page history and authors); dyspnea (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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