orthopnea
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ni noun Pathology.
difficult or painful breathing except in an erect sitting or standing position.
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orthopnea or·thop·ne·a (ôr'thŏp-nē'ə, ôr-thŏp'nē-ə)
n.
Discomfort in breathing that is relieved by sitting or standing in an erect position.
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Orthopnea
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Unlike orthopnea, symptoms are not relieved by sitting up.
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