hypocapnia

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Noun

hypocapnia (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A state of reduced carbon dioxide in the blood.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 69:

     The patient Ms. Gompert seemed both to be fighting for breath and to be breathing rapidly enough to induce hypocapnia […]

Synonyms

• hypocarbia

Antonyms

• hypercapnia
• hypercarbia

Translations

• French: hypocapnie
• Italian: ipocapnia
• Portuguese: hipocapnia
• Spanish: hipocapnia

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