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What does hyperventilation mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) the state of breathing faster or deeper than necessary
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The clinical features vary widely and may resemble myelopathy, radiculopathy, muscle disease, or even hyperventilation.
I experience breathlessness and sometimes congestion leading to wheezing and hyperventilation.
My wife, Erin, translated what I was trying to say through grunts, screams, and hyperventilation, into words.
The problem comes when a swimmer or diver manipulates the brain's automatic breathing control device through hyperventilation.
The patient may experience nausea, vomiting, hyperventilation, and hypocalcemia with muscle tetany and seizures.
She remained arousable, and her hyperventilation gradually resolved within 1 week, enabling complete withdrawal of all respiratory suppressants.

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