English

Noun

hypocapnia ‎(uncountable)

1. (medicine) A state of reduced carbon dioxide in the blood.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 69:

     The patient Ms. Gompert seemed both to be fighting for breath and to be breathing rapidly enough to induce hypocapnia […].

Translations

Synonyms

• hypocarbia

Antonyms

• hypercapnia
• hypercarbia