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  2. Shortness of breath - Wikipedia

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    Shortness of breath (SOB), known as dyspnea (in AmE) or dyspnoea (in BrE), is an uncomfortable feeling of not being able to breathe well enough. The American Thoracic Society defines it as "a subjective experience of breathing discomfort that consists of qualitatively distinct sensations that vary in intensity", and recommends evaluating dyspnea by assessing the intensity of its distinct ...

  3. Tiberian Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    There is still another pronunciation, affected by the addition of a dagesh in the Resh in certain words in the Bible, which indicates it was doubled [ʀː]: הַרְּאִיתֶם [haʀːĭʔiˈθɛm]. As can be seen, this pronunciation has to do with the progressive increase in length of this consonant (הָרְאִיתֶם).

  4. Biblical languages - Wikipedia

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    Biblical languages are any of the languages employed in the original writings of the Bible.Some debate exists as to which language is the original language of a particular passage, and about whether a term has been properly translated from an ancient language into modern editions of the Bible.

  5. Sephardi Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    One pronunciation associated with the Hebrew of Western Sephardim (Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Northern Europe and their descendants) is a velar nasal ([ŋ]) sound, as in English singing, but other Sephardim of the Balkans, Anatolia, North Africa, and the Levant maintain the pharyngeal sound of Yemenite Hebrew or Arabic of their regional ...

  6. File:En-us-dyspnea.oga - Wikipedia

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    En-us-dyspnea.oga (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 0.9 s, 286 kbps, file size: 32 KB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  7. Biblical Hebrew - Wikipedia

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    The earliest written sources refer to Biblical Hebrew as שפת כנען ‎ 'the language of Canaan'. [4] [5] The Hebrew Bible also calls the language יהודית ‎ 'Judaean, Judahite' [6] [5] In the Hellenistic period, Greek writings use the names Hebraios, Hebraïsti [7] and in Mishnaic Hebrew we find עברית ‎ 'Hebrew' and לשון עברית ‎ 'Hebrew language'.

  8. Biblical Hebrew orthography - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew Bible was presumably originally written in a more defective orthography than found in any of the texts known today. [33] Of the extant textual witnesses of the Hebrew Bible, the Masoretic text is generally the most conservative in its use of matres lectionis , with the Samaritan Pentateuch and its forebears being more full and the ...

  9. Orthopnea - Wikipedia

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    Orthopnea or orthopnoea [1] is shortness of breath (dyspnea) that occurs when lying flat, [2] causing the person to have to sleep propped up in bed or sitting in a chair. It is commonly seen as a late manifestation of heart failure, resulting from fluid redistribution into the central circulation, causing an increase in pulmonary capillary pressure and causing difficulty in breathing.