apnoea
noun /ˈæpniə/
/ˈæpniə/
(British English) (North American English apnea)
[uncountable] (medical- a condition in which somebody stops breathing for a short time, especially while they are sleeping
(睡眠)呼吸暂停 Collocations DictionaryApnoea/apnea is used after these nouns:- sleep
词源early 18th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek apnoia, from apnous ‘breathless’.