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Cheyne-Stokes breathing

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Cheyne-Stokes breathing /tʃeɪn/

▶noun Medicine an abnormal cyclical pattern of breathing in which the rate gradually decreases to a complete stop and then increases again.

– origin C19: named after the physicians John Cheyne and William Stokes.

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