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Brief interruptions of breathing during sleep.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
apnea that occurs during sleep
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sleep disorder, apnea
Narrower terms: sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS, infant death, crib death, cot death
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
اِنْقِطَاع النَّفَس أَثْنَاء النَّوْم
(inqiṭāʕ an-nafas ʔaṯnāʔ an-nawm)
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Catalan:
apnea del son
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Chinese Mandarin:
睡眠呼吸暫停 /睡眠呼吸暂停
(shuìmián hūxī zàntíng)
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Czech:
spánková apnoe
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Danish:
søvnapnø
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Dutch:
slaapapneu
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Finnish:
uniapnea
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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French:
apnée du sommeil
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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German:
Schlafapnoe-Syndrom
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Irish:
aipnia chodlata
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Italian:
apnea notturna
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Italian:
apnea nell sonno
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Japanese:
睡眠時無呼吸
(suiminji mukokyū)
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Korean:
수면 무호흡증
(sumyeon muhoheupjeung)
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Latvian:
miega apnoja
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Māori:
moe hātū
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Polish:
bezdech senny
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Portuguese:
apneia do sono
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Slovak:
spánkové apnoe
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Spanish:
apnea del sueño
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Swedish:
sömnapné
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
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Turkish:
uyku apnesi
— brief interruptions of breathing during sleep
