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