platypnea

English

Etymology

platy- +‎ -pnea, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”) and πνοή (pnoḗ, “breath, breathing”).

Pronunciation

See full workup of the variants at Wikipedia > Shortness of breath > Collation of -pnea transcriptions.

Noun

platypnea (plural platypneas)

(medicine) Shortness of breath that occurs when the patient is upright, that is, sufficient breathing only when lying flat.

Antonyms

Hypernyms

(shortness of breath): dyspnea

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