Apneic

//æpˈniːɪk// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 1
    of or relating to apnea wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
apnoeic

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"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.

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