apnoeae

English

Noun

apnoeae pl

1. (rare) plural of apnoea
   • 1959, Excerpta Medica Foundation, Excerpta Medica: Internal Medicine, volume 13, part 1, page 616:

     Very remarkable, however, is the discovery that the apnoea-lengthening action of a maximal apnoea is already present after 10 sec. With 3 maximal apnoeae, with pauses of only 10 sec. each time, one nevertheless gets breath-holding times of, e.g., 79‒97‒102 sec.