labored breathing
Noun
Meaning
labored breathing (uncountable)
(medicine) Breathing at less than 12 or more than 20 breaths per minute with poor or irregular quality, rhythm, or tidal volume; a sign of respiratory distress.
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After birth, rapid or labored breathing, cyanosis, slow heartbeat, a barrel-shaped chest or low Apgar score are all signs of the syndrome.
About 12-feet inside, he found Pratt lying on the floor and could hear her labored breathing, the undersheriff said.
He was not responsive and couldn’t speak, and he had very labored breathing that was not actually moving air into his lungs,” Milley said in an account of the incident provided to CNN.
Hearing her wheezing and labored breathing, he wondered if she was really on her deathbed, if she was going to speak her last words to him, or reveal a secret she had held all her life.
Cruz was ordered held without bond and booked into jail, still wearing a hospital gown from his treatment for labored breathing.
Kussmaul breathing The rapid, deep, and labored breathing of people who have ketoacidosis or who are in a diabetic coma.