Structured Summary
Abstract
Difficult or labored breathing.
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- Breathlessness
- Shortness of Breath
- Breath Shortness
- Orthopnea
- Platypnea
- Recumbent Dyspnea
- Rest Dyspnea
- Trepopnea
- Dyspnea, Recumbent
- Dyspnea, Rest
- Dyspneas, Rest
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
do not confuse with APNEA or other respiration disorders
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Dyspnea. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004417. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004417
- Dyspnea. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortness_of_breath
- Dyspnea. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188008