Wheeze vs Dyspnoea - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between wheeze and dyspnoea

is that wheeze is a piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration while dyspnoea is .

is to breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

(en noun)

A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.

(British, slang) An ulterior scheme or plan

* 2011 " Road rage; High petrol prices hurt, but will not throttle the economy", The Economist 19 November 2011:

The main point of fuel duty, though, is as a fiscal wheeze : it made up 5% of the tax take in 2010.

(slang) Something very humorous or laughable.

The new comedy is a wheeze .

You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze !

* See also

To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

* 2001 , (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443)

If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.

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