hypocapnia

English

Etymology

From hypo- +‎ capn- +‎ -ia; more at capno- § Etymology.

Noun

hypocapnia (uncountable)

1. (medicine) A state of diminished carbon dioxide in the blood.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 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

state of reduced carbon dioxide in the blood

• Belarusian: гіпакапнія (hipakapnija)
• Catalan: hipocàpnia
• Chinese: 低二氧化碳血症
• Czech: hypokapnie (cs) f
• Dutch: hypocapnie
• Esperanto: hipokapnio
• French: hypocapnie (fr) f
• German: Hypokapnie
• Greek: υποκαπνία f (ypokapnía)
• Italian: ipocapnia (it) f
• Norwegian: hypokapni
• Polish: hipokapnia
• Portuguese: hipocapnia f
• Romanian: hipocapnie
• Russian: гипокапния (ru) (gipokapnija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хипокапнија

  Roman: hipokapnija (sh)

• Spanish: hipocapnia (es)
• Spanish: hipocapnia (es) f
• Ukrainian: гіпокапнія (hipokapnija)
• Uzbek: gipokapniya