hypopnea
noun
hypopnea is a noun meaning “A disorder which involves episodes of overly shallow breathing or an abnormally low respiratory rate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-O-P-N-E-A, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypopnea is hypopneas.
What does hypopnea mean?
noun
- 1
A disorder which involves episodes of overly shallow breathing or an abnormally low respiratory rate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hypopnea
- hypopneas plural
- hypopnoea
- hypopnœa
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypopnea?
Hypopnea appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hypopnea in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | hipopnea |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hypopnea come from?
From hypo- + -pnea.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).