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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

anhelatio

, fr.

anhelare

to pant;

(perh. akin to E.

) +

halare

to breathe: cf. F.

anhélation

Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma.

Glanvill.

Noun.

[L. anhelo, to pant or breathe with difficulty; from halo, to breathe.]

Shortness of breath; a panting; difficult respiration, without fever, or with a sense of suffocation.

See also: anhelation

anhélation f ‎(plural anhélations)