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What does apnoea mean?

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Noun
  1. (British spelling) Alternative form of apnea
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The link was most clear in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea, when breathing may be interrupted because the upper airways collapse.
Later, when the danger to life from apnoea becomes more imminent, a hissing or whistling sound succeeds.
When the temperature is at about 16 C., the periods of apnoea in the gradually awaking animal are very short and infrequent.
The doctor will also assess the type of sleepiness a person is experiencing, to work out whether sleep apnoea is a possible diagnosis.
Thus, this study aimed to determine whether exercise exacerbates central sleep apnoea with exposure to normobaric hypoxia.
She was given morphine and needed ventilation for her subsequent apnoea and to try to lower her pulmonary resistance to improve lung blood flow.

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