Meaning of orthopnoea | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Shortness of breath when lying flat, causing the person to have to sleep propped up in bed or sitting in a chair.
   uncountable, usually
2. Obsolete spelling of orthopnoea.
   alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“We observed, on attentive examination, the following phenomena: cough, with sense of constriction in the middle of the chest; orthopnœa, threatening suffocation; face violet coloured; lips swollen; beatings of the jugular veins isochronous with those of the carotid arteries; palpitation; […]”

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