a complex of respiratory and circulatory symptoms associated with extreme obesity. The name originates from the fat boy depicted in Charles Dickens`s ... [3 related articles]
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<syndrome> The combination of obesity, somnolence, hypoventilation (underbreathing), and plethoric (red) face named after the fat and red-faced boy in a state of somnolency in charles dickens' novel the pickwick papers. (the same boy is thought by some to have had prader-willi syndrome). ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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(pik-wik´e-әn) obesity-hypoventilation syndrome.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a combination of severe, grotesque obesity, somnolence, and general debility, theoretically resulting from hypoventilation induced by the obesity; hypercapnia, pulmonary hypertension, and cor pulmonale can result.
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Pickwickian syndrome: The combination of obesity, somnolence (sleepiness), hypoventilation (underbreathing), and plethoric (red) face. The syndrome is so named because of the 'fat and red-faced boy in a state of somnolency' that Charles Dickens described in his novel, The Pickwick Papers. (The same boy is thought by some experts possibly to have ha...
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An old term for large people with problems of underbreathing. Included a lot of diagnosis. No longer used by those that know!
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extreme obesity along with shallow breathing, sleep apnoea, excessive sleepiness, and heart failure
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