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Apnea

//ˈæp.ni.ə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The cessation of breathing, most often in reference to transient instances thereof during sleep. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    transient cessation of respiration wordnet

Etymology

From a- + -pnea, from the New Latin apnoea, from the Ancient Greek ἄπνοια (ápnoia), formed from ἀ- (a-, “absence of”) + πνοή (pnoḗ, “breathing”).

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