Cheyne-Stokes

名词 n.
/tʃeɪnˈstəʊks/    /tʃeɪnˈstoʊks/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An abnormal pattern of breathing involving apnea alternating with periods of compensatory hyperventilation and with smooth, gradual transitions between the two, characteristic of those in a coma or suffering cardiac or cerebral episodes. attributive,uncountable
    — He recognized Cheyne-Stokes tendencies in his respiration—but like everything the symptom served only to turn him in toward his emotion.

词源

From the names of Scottish physician John Cheyne (1777–1836) and Irish physician William Stokes (1804–1878).
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