apneic
/æpˈniːɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.42 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Exhibiting or relating to apnea: no longer breathing
Example Sentences
- "Rarely (in cases which trouble us all) our new tools find themselves applied to bodies which in any prior human era would have become apneic in seconds, pulseless in minutes, rigid in hours, and putrid in days[…]."
- "In three animals, apneic episodes in the second minute of hypoxia necessitated termination of the hypoxic challenge."
Etymology
From apnea + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more apneic (comparative)
most apneic (superlative)