Adjective: dyspneal
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: dyspnoeal)
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: dyspnoeal)
- Not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty
"The dyspneal patient required immediate medical attention";
- breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeic, dyspnoeal [Brit, Cdn]
See also: blown, choking, pursy [archaic], short-winded, smothering, suffocating, suffocative, unventilated, winded