Thus, one would have to say that it is normal for a man of 80 to be breathless after climbing two flights of stairs, while such breathlessness would be distinctly abnormal in an agile child of 10 years of age.
PricewaterhouseCoopers (which seems, confusingly, to call itself PCw for short) is the longest recent example of such corporate breathlessness: Mr Lybrand, one feels, is well out of it.
GE's nuclear partner is Hitachi, a competitor of Areva, the German firm notes.There is a breathlessness in all this as chief executives leap on planes and doors bang in the president's office at the Élysée Palace and the economics ministry at Bercy.
Such breathlessness (complete with mixed metaphors) is an occupational hazard in the world of electronic commerce.
Stephen Dubner, Mr Levitt's co-author, is a contributor to the New York Times magazine, and presumably responsible for the book's frequently tiresome breathlessness.
Drugs are given to alleviate unpleasant symptoms, like breathlessness, congestion and pain.
In severe deformations, the effects can include breathlessness upon exertion, pain around the heart, and dizziness.
Several hours after exposure, however, breathlessness and fatal cardiorespiratory failure due to pulmonary edema (collection of fluid in the lungs) may develop.
It is a form of local sensitivity to cold and is frequently seen in mentally or emotionally disturbed people or in those with neurocirculatory asthenia (a symptom-complex in which there is breathlessness, giddiness, a sense of fatigue, pain in the chest over the heart, palpitation, and a fast and forcible heartbeat of which the affected person is conscious).
Oxygen exchange in the alveoli is impaired, causing such functional toxic responses as breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing with sputum.
At the extreme depths now attainable by humans some 500 metres in the sea and more than 680 metres in the laboratory direct effects of pressure upon the respiratory centre may be part of the "high-pressure neurological syndrome" and may account for some of the anomalies of breathlessness (dyspnea) and respiratory control that occur with exercise at depth.
