| apna | <medicine> Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Priv. +, breath, to breathe, blow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| apnea | <clinical sign> Cessation of breathing. (18 Nov 1997) |
| apneic | Related to or suffering from apnea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apneic oxygenation | Maintenance of oxygenation during apnea by intratracheal insufflation of oxygen at high flow rates. Synonym: apneic oxygenation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apneic pause | Cessation of air flow for more than 10 seconds. See: sleep apnea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apneumatosis | An obsolete term for congenital atelectasis. Origin: G. A-priv. + pneumatoo, to inflate, + -osis, condition (05 Mar 2000) |
| apneumia | Congenital absence of the lungs. Origin: G. A-priv. + pneumon, lung (05 Mar 2000) |
| apneumona | <zoology> An order of holothurians in which the internal respiratory organs are wanting. Synonym: Apoda or Apodes. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Priv. +, a lung. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| apneusis | An abnormal respiratory pattern consisting of a pause at full inspiration; a prolonged inspiratory cramp caused by a lesion at the mid or caudal pontine level of the brainstem. Origin: G. A-priv. + pneusis, a breathing, fr. Pneo, to breathe (05 Mar 2000) |
| apneustic | An obsolete term for apneusis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apneustic breathing | Pauses in the respiratory cycle at full inspiration, caused by damage of the respiratory control centres in the more caudal pons. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apnoea | <clinical sign> Cessation of breathing. (18 Nov 1997) |