sleep apnea

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   apnea that occurs during sleep

   Broaderapneasleep disorder

   Narrowersudden infant death syndrome

Questions about sleep apnea

What does sleep apnea mean?

sleep apnea means "apnea that occurs during sleep".

Is sleep apnea a common word?

sleep apnea 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.