cheyne-stokes respiration

1. 1.

   abnormal respiration in which periods of shallow and deep breathing alternate

   Synonymsperiodic breathing

   Broaderbreathing

Questions about cheyne-stokes respiration

What does cheyne-stokes respiration mean?

cheyne-stokes respiration means "abnormal respiration in which periods of shallow and deep breathing alternate".

What is another word for cheyne-stokes respiration?

Close synonyms include periodic breathing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cheyne-stokes respiration a common word?

cheyne-stokes respiration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.