| apnea | (noun) transient cessation of respiration | - |
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| apneic | (adjective) of or relating to apnea | Synonyms: apnoeic |
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| bronchopneumonia | (noun) pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles | Synonyms: bronchial pneumonia |
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| cheapness | (noun) a price below the standard price | Synonyms: bargain rate, cut price, cut rate |
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| (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: sleaze, tackiness, tat |
| crispness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: brittleness, crispiness |
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| (noun) a pleasing firmness and freshness | - |
| (noun) an expressive style that is direct and to the point | - |
| dampness | (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: damp, moistness |
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| deepness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: profoundness, profundity |
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| (noun) the extent downward or backward or inward | Synonyms: depth |
| (noun) a low pitch that is loud and voluminous | - |
| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, depth, profoundness, profundity |
| dyspnea | (noun) difficult or labored respiration | Synonyms: dyspnoea |
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| dyspneal | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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| dyspneic | (adjective) not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty | Synonyms: breathless, dyspneal, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic |
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| eupnea | (noun) normal relaxed breathing | Synonyms: eupnoea |
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| eupneic | (adjective) passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: breathing, eupnoeic |
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| grapnel | (noun) a light anchor for small boats | Synonyms: grapnel anchor |
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| (noun) a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope | Synonyms: grapple, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron |
| hyperpnea | (noun) energetic (deep and rapid) respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or various disorders | - |
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| hypopnea | (noun) slow or shallow breathing | - |
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| limpness | (noun) a flabby softness | Synonyms: flabbiness, flaccidity |
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| orthopnea | (noun) form of dyspnea in which the person can breathe comfortably only when standing or sitting erect; associated with asthma and emphysema and angina pectoris | - |
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| pleuropneumonia | (noun) pleurisy and pneumonia | - |
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| plumpness | (noun) the bodily property of being well rounded | Synonyms: embonpoint, roundness |
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| pneumatic | (adjective) of or relating to or using air (or a similar gas) | - |
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| pneumatically | (adverb) in a pneumatic manner | - |
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| pneumatics | (noun) the branch of mechanics that deals with the mechanical properties of gases | - |
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| pneumatophore | (noun) an air-filled root (submerged or exposed) that can function as a respiratory organ of a marsh or swamp plant | - |
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| pneumococcal | (adjective) of or derived from or caused by bacteria of the genus pneumococcus | - |
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| pneumococcus | (noun) bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans | Synonyms: Diplococcus pneumoniae |
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| pneumoconiosis | (noun) chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles | Synonyms: pneumonoconiosis |
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| pneumocytosis | (noun) pneumonia occurring in infants or in persons with impaired immune systems (as AIDS victims) | Synonyms: interstitial plasma cell pneumonia, pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, pneumocystis pneumonia |
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| pneumoencephalogram | (noun) an X ray of the brain made by replacing spinal fluid with a gas (usually oxygen) to improve contrast | Synonyms: encephalogram |
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| pneumogastric | (adjective) of or relating to or involving the lungs and stomach | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the vagus nerve | Synonyms: vagal |
| (noun) a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera | Synonyms: nervus vagus, pneumogastric nerve, tenth cranial nerve, vagus, vagus nerve, wandering nerve |
| pneumonectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a lung (usually to treat lung cancer) | - |
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| pneumonia | (noun) respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants | - |
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| pneumonic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the lungs | Synonyms: pulmonary, pulmonic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to or characterized by or affected by pneumonia | - |
| pneumonitis | (noun) inflammation of the lungs; caused by a virus or an allergic reaction | - |
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| pneumonoconiosis | (noun) chronic respiratory disease caused by inhaling metallic or mineral particles | Synonyms: pneumoconiosis |
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| pneumothorax | (noun) abnormal presence of air in the pleural cavity resulting in the collapse of the lung; may be spontaneous (due to injury to the chest) or induced (as a treatment for tuberculosis) | - |
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| sharpness | (noun) harshness of manner | Synonyms: asperity |
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| (noun) thinness of edge or fineness of point | Synonyms: keenness |
| (noun) a strong odor or taste property | Synonyms: bite, pungency, raciness |
| (noun) the quality of being sharp and clear | Synonyms: distinctness |
| (noun) the attribute of urgency in tone of voice | Synonyms: edge |
| (noun) the quality of being keenly and painfully felt | - |
| (noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, acuteness, keenness |
| shrapnel | (noun) shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight | - |
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| steepness | (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitousness |
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