panting (redirected from panting disease)

panting

Etymology: Fr, panteler, to gasp

a ventilatory pattern characterized by rapid, shallow breathing. Panting usually moves gas back and forth in the anatomic dead space at a high flow rate, which evaporates water and removes heat but produces little or no alveolar ventilation and does not cause hypocapnia.

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panting

rapid, shallow breathing, a characteristic heat-losing reaction in dogs; represents an increase in dead-space ventilation resulting in heat loss without necessarily increasing oxygen uptake or carbon dioxide loss.

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panting disease

see atypical interstitial pneumonia, zieriaarborescens.