| sleep apnea |
A group of potentially lethal disorders in which breathing recurrently stops during sleep for long enough to cause measurable blood deoxygenation.
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| sleep apnea syndrome |
A disorder in which 30 or more episodes of apnea (absence of breathing) occur in an hour with each episode lasting at least 10 seconds. It is often associated with obesity.
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| sleep apnea |
A condition in which, during sleep the soft tissues of the larynx relax and close the airway, thus stopping breathing. A person so afflicted is aroused from sleep continuously through the night.
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| sleep apnea |
disruption of breathing during sleep which lasts longer than 10 seconds
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| sleep apnea |
at least thirty episodes during a seven-hour period of sleep during which the air flow stops for longer than ten seconds before the child starts breathing again.
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