Cheyne–Stokes breathing

Cheyne–Stokes breathing

labored breathing that alternates between increasing and decreasing rates, as in premature infants and individuals in a coma. [John Cheyne (1777–1836), Scottish medical writer; William Stokes (1804–1878), Irish physician]

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