Hellas Alive Dictionary - ορθοπνοια

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ὀρθόπνοια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρθόπνοια ὀρθοπνοίας

Structure: ὀρθοπνοι (Stem) + α (Ending)

upright breathing, orthopnoea, a type of asthma which only admits breathing in an upright posture

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

ὀρθόπνοιαν δὲ ἐκάλεον, οὕνεκεν ὀρθίῳ σχήματι μοῦνον ἀναπνέουσι εὐφόρωσ · πνὶξ γὰρ ἐν κατακλίσι . (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 206)
Αἱ δὲ κυνάγχαι δεινόταται μέν εἰσι, καὶ τάχιστα ἀναιρέουσιν, ὁκόσαι μήτε ἐν τῇ φάρυγγι μηδὲν ἔκδηλον ποιέουσι, μήτε ἐν τῷ αὐχένι, πλεῖστον δὲ πόνον παρέχουσι καὶ ὀρθόπνοιαν‧ αὗται γὰρ καὶ αὐθημερὸν ἀποπνίγουσι, καὶ δευτεραῖαι, καὶ τριταῖαι, καὶ τεταρταῖαι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., PROGNWSTIKON, 23.2)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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