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Hypocapnia - What does it mean?

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hypocapnia

English

(wikipedia hypocapnia)

Noun

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  • (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

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.