tachypnea /tach·yp·nea/ (tak″ip-ne´ah) very rapid respiration.
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tach·yp·ne·a (t k  p-n   , tk-n)n. Rapid breathing. Also called polypnea. |
tachypnea
[tak′ēpnē′ə]
Etymology: Gk, tachys + pnoia, breathing
an abnormally rapid rate of breathing (more than 20 breaths per minute in adults), such as seen with hyperpyrexia. Also spelled tachypnoea.
tachypnea [tak″ip-ne´ah]
very rapid respirations, seen especially in high fever when the body attempts to rid itself of excess heat. The rate of respiration increases at a ratio of about eight breaths per minute for every degree Celsius above normal. Other causes include pneumonia, compensatory respiratory alkalosis as the body tries to “blow off” excess carbon dioxide, respiratory insufficiency, lesions in the respiratory control center of the brain, and salicylate poisoning. See also hyperpnea and hyperventilation.
transient tachypnea of the newborn a self-limited elevation of the respiratory rate in newborns due to delayed clearing of fetal lung water.
tachypnea (takˈ·ip·nēˑ·
),n abnormally rapid rate of breathing, such as that associated with high fever.
tachypnea (tak´ipnē´
),n an excessively rapid respiration. A respiratory neurosis marked by quick, shallow breathing.
tachypnea
very rapid respirations. The rate is fast and the depth shallow, as in heat stroke, because the initiating mechanism is hyperthermia and there is no hypercapnia.
tachypnea
Medtalk Abnormally fast breathing. Cf Dyspnea.
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