What's the difference between breathless and pulseless?
Breathless
Definition:
(a.) Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath.
(a.) Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention.
(a.) Dead; as, a breathless body.
Example Sentences:
(1) A nine-year-old male child presented with a history of recurrent chest infections and breathlessness.
(2) A breathless Sturridge was still trying to digest his part in the game when he paid tribute to Hodgson, saying: “I’m grateful to the gaffer for allowing me to score and it’s a beautiful feeling to represent your country in the rivalry against another great country.
(3) One year later, using postal questionnaires, they were asked about their experience of back pain in the ensuing 12 months and about smoking habits, breathlessness, coughing, and the bringing up of phlegm.
(4) José Mourinho ended this breathless contest on his knees with a sliding, turf-surfing celebration that was fuelled by relief as much as joy.
(5) Having personally witnessed their live act (Black Flag frantically twanging Bootsy’s Rubber Band) at Dingwalls in late August, I thought I’d made a great discovery until, two breathless days later, and a mere few hours before they left these fair isles, the Peppers deposited their press kit in my lap.
(6) A breathless, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it beginning had three goals inside the first 10 minutes.
(7) Nineteen patients with advanced disease and variable hypoxaemia undertook exercise until they indicated severe breathlessness on a 100 mm visual analogue scale.
(8) Radiotherapy may have a palliative effect for breathlessness in patients with central airways obstruction due to tumour.
(9) Cough with or without expectoration (98%) and fever (95%) were the commonest symptoms followed by breathlessness (85%) and chest pain (83%).
(10) Respiratory frequency was determined before and after the aerosol, and exercise tolerance and breathlessness were measured with a 6 min walking test and visual analogue scales.
(11) "I've still got the cough, then quite quickly developed a wheeze in my breathing and breathlessness upon any physical exertion.
(12) It is important to realize that respiratory muscles may be directly affected when assessing thyrotoxic patients with breathlessness, as severe involvement of the respiratory muscles may cause respiratory failure.
(13) Those reporting wheeze or breathlessness, and especially those with both symptoms, were significantly more likely to have bronchial hyperresponsiveness with a low PC20.
(14) Instead, a breathless end-to-end affair closed with the Sky Blues on 65 points and Arsenal 68 with next Sunday’s final games to go.
(15) We concluded that blood gas analysis in occupationally related disability determination is unreliable, in that quality control and instrumentation are variable; that severe hypoxemia is rare in coal workers' pneumoconiosis; and that such hypoxemia is nonspecific and correlates poorly with breathlessness.
(16) There was a decrease in the Likert visual analogue score of breathlessness at peak exercise (8.6 [SD 2.1] vs 4.9 [3.1], p < 0.01).
(17) Psychophysical power functions were similar for leg exertion in the three groups while the growth of breathlessness was lower in group B.
(18) She has a tablet in place of a chest, for displaying photographs, and “She’ll say, for instance,” my guide explains: “‘Do you remember Paris?’” In that echoing space I found myself suddenly breathless.
(19) Enalapril treatment significantly improved functional class, symptom score for breathlessness, and exercise tolerance.
(20) Suppression of ventilation by tasks such as talking may produce breathlessness in normal individuals under conditions when a strong respiratory drive exists, e.g., during exercise, and in patients with severe lung disease.
Pulseless
Definition:
(a.) Having no pulsation; lifeless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Occlusive thromboaortopathy, also known as "pulseless disease" or Takayasu's disease, was first described in 1908 by Takayasu, who observed cataracts and peculiar arteriovenous anastamoses around the optic papillae in a young woman.
(2) Takayasu disease is characterized by a pulseless condition which most often occurs in young females from Asian or South American areas.
(3) Two different algorithms were used one for ventricular fibrillation (VF) and pulseless ventricular tachycardia and one for asystole and pulseless bradycardia.
(4) A 56-year-old woman with severe back pain and a cold, pulseless right extremity was admitted to our hospital.
(5) The effects of pulseless perfusion on the distribution of renal blood flow and on release of renin were studied in anesthetized dogs.
(6) A 38-year old quintipara with an unremarkable medical history suddenly complained of nausea during delivery, became pulseless and cyanotic, and lost consciousness.
(7) At birth, the right upper extremity was cold, pulseless and cyanotic.
(8) Pulseless idioventricular rhythm is the agonal arrhythmia identified in three models of hemorrhagic shock used in this study.
(9) Physical examination revealed a firm, smooth, fixed, non-tender, pulseless fist size mass in the right lower abdomen.
(10) Takayasu arteritis is a chronic vasculitis characterized by a clinical pulseless condition and is predominant in young female patients.
(11) The maneuver is performed by assessing the palpability of the pulseless radial or brachial artery distal to a point of occlusion of the artery manually or by cuff pressure.
(12) Very high blood pressure in the absence of significant target organ impairment is an important clue to this subtype of hypertension and should lead to simple diagnostic techniques, such as Osler's maneuver (an attempt to palpate a pulseless radial artery) and radiographs of the soft tissues of the arms.
(13) This case highlights the fact that, irrespective of race, any patient who presents for the first time in pregnancy with pulseless hypertensive disease or other features suggestive of Takayasu's arteritis, should have their management in labour determined by the number of complications that are present.
(14) In this study, we analyzed the outcome of 15 consecutive young patients, who were resuscitated from pulseless ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation and who were evaluated by comprehensive hemodynamic and electrophysiological testing.
(15) Vascular lesions are first diagnosed clinically: hard signs of arterial trauma (for instance, a pulseless extremity) certainly indicate the injury.
(16) If preformed collateral systems provide some perfusion distal to an arterial occlusion (for example, in the common iliac artery), there is frequently an incomplete ischemic syndrome observed which is characterized by pain, paleness and pulselessness.
(17) In addition, one patient had total occlusion at the origin of one subclavian artery (classic pulseless disease).
(18) This injury should be repaired acutely to avoid long-term functional disability in all patients who present with a pulseless upper extremity.
(19) An increase in the rate of bradycardia and pulseless idioventricular rhythms that was independent of electrical capture or pharmacologic therapy was noted occasionally.
(20) During pulseless perfusion there was a consistent and progressive redistribution of blood flow toward deeper cortical layers with the outer cortical layer falling from 36.9 to 25.3% p less than 0.001) and the juxtamedullary cortex increasing from 14.5 to 25.4% (p less than 0.001) after 2 hours.