Synonyms for shortness of breath
short·ness of breath

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1. shortness of breathnoun

   Synonyms:
   dyspnea

2. shortness of breathnoun

   difficulty in breathing; dyspnea

   Synonyms:
   dyspnea

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1. shortness of breath, SOB, breathlessnessnoun

   a dyspneic condition

   Synonyms:
   son of a bitch, breathlessness, dickhead, bastard, prick, cocksucker, shit, whoreson, sobbing, asshole

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1. Whitney Gregory:

   The fatigue, shortness of breath and headaches are too much for me to get through the day, i would never be able to keep up with the fast pace of the ER. I feel like a shell of Whitney Gregory.

2. Van Kerkhove:

   When we actually go back and we say how many of them were truly asymptomatic, we find out that many have really mild disease, they're not quote-unquote Covid symptoms -- meaning they may not have developed fever yet, they may not have had a significant cough, or they may not have shortness of breath -- but some may have mild disease.

3. Michele Heisler:

   You can't say that someone dies from any form of delirium, it's like saying, what is the cause of death ? Chest pain. What is the cause of death ? I don't know, shortness of breath. In a way, it's as nonsensical.

4. Mike Stone:

   You can scan close to the entire body, we were using lung sonography to look at patients with shortness of breath and chest pain far before Covid and we'll be using it to look at them long after Covid has hopefully been handled.

5. Susan Matt:

   Not all homesickness was necessarily going to kill you, but if you had a really acute case, it would qualify as nostalgia, there are lots of different sets of overlapping descriptions : a shortness of breath, palpitations of the heart, dysentery, fever, problems with the lungs. Or it was feeling an acute yearning, and then your body would start to close down.