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ὀρθόπνοια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρθόπνοια ὀρθοπνοίας

Structure: ὀρθοπνοι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

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

Declension

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.

Examples

  • Εἰ ἀπὸ δρόμου καὶ γυμνασίων καὶ παντὸσ ἔργου δυσπνοεῖ ἡ ἀναπνοὴ, ἆσθμα καλεῖται· καὶ ἡ νοῦσοσ δὲ ὀρθόπνοια, καὶ ἥδε κικλήσκεται ἆσθμα· ἐν γὰρ τοῖσι παροξυσμοῖσι ἀσθμαίνουσι καὶ οἵδε. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 205)
  • ὀρθόπνοιαν δὲ ἐκάλεον, οὕνεκεν ὀρθίῳ σχήματι μοῦνον ἀναπνέουσι εὐφόρωσ · πνὶξ γὰρ ἐν κατακλίσι . (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 206)
  • εἵνεκεν τοῦ τόνου τοῦ ἐπὶ τῷ πνεύματι ὀρθόπνοια τοὔνομα. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 207)
  • πυρετὸσ μὲν γὰρ ἦν οὐ λάβροσ, κνησμὸσ δὲ ἀφόρητοσ τῆσ ἐπιφανείασ ὅλησ καὶ κόλου συνεχεῖσ ἀλγηδόνεσ περί τε τοὺσ πόδασ ὥσπερ ὑδρωπιῶντοσ οἰδήματα τοῦ τε ἤτρου φλεγμονὴ καὶ δὴ αἰδοίου σηπεδὼν σκώληκασ γεννῶσα, πρὸσ τούτοισ ὀρθόπνοια καὶ δύσπνοια καὶ σπασμοὶ πάντων τῶν μελῶν, ὥστε τοὺσ ἐπιθειάζοντασ ποινὴν εἶναι τῶν σοφιστῶν τὰ νοσήματα λέγειν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 920:2)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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