dyspneic

Updated: June 15, 2025

The symptoms are those of imperfect heart action; the patient is dyspneic on exertion or in leaning over, the heart acts rapidly on such exertion, the patient puffs, perspires easily, and becomes leg weary, sedentary in his habits, and more or less incapacitated for work.

Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne - Disturbances of the Heart