Apneic
/æpˈniːɪk/ adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Exhibiting or relating to apnea: no longer breathing
"Rarely (in cases which trouble us all) our new tools find themselves applied to bodies which in any prior human era would have become apneic in seconds, pulseless in minutes, rigid in hours, and putrid in days[…]."
Adjective
- 1 of or relating to apnea wordnet
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More examples"Rarely (in cases which trouble us all) our new tools find themselves applied to bodies which in any prior human era would have become apneic in seconds, pulseless in minutes, rigid in hours, and putrid in days[…]."
Etymology
From apnea + -ic.