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GASPING RESPIRATION [1 record]

Record 1 2013-12-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
DEF

A highly irregular respiration with a spasmodic inspiratory effort, which is brief and terminates abruptly; it is characteristic of a near terminal state.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
DEF

Inspiration agonique terminale, phénomène immédiatement prémortem, marqué par la reprise, après une pause respiratoire qu'on aurait pu croire définitive, de deux ou trois inspirations difficiles qui sont les dernières.

OBS

respiration haletante : terme privilégié par le Comité de sémiologie médicale.

Spanish

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