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What does hyperventilation mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) the state of breathing faster or deeper than necessary
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The patient may experience nausea, vomiting, hyperventilation, and hypocalcemia with muscle tetany and seizures.
Patients with severe falciparum malaria are acidotic and compensate by hyperventilation.
My wife, Erin, translated what I was trying to say through grunts, screams, and hyperventilation, into words.
Pure water loss is frequently associated with fever, hyperventilation or diabetes insipidus.
In one sense modern medicine concurs in this association, by directly relating hyperventilation to a disturbed psychological state.
I experience breathlessness and sometimes congestion leading to wheezing and hyperventilation.

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