Meanings
Origin
- French-graphe
- Ancient Greekἀναπνοή“recovery of breath; respiration”
- Frenchanapnographe
- Englishanapnograph
From French anapnographe, coined by the device's inventors Léon Bergeon and M. Kastus in the 1860s, from Ancient Greek ἀναπνοή (anapnoḗ, “recovery of breath; respiration”) (from ἀναπνέω (anapnéō, “to draw breath”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + πνέω (pnéō, “to breathe”)) + French -graphe (see -graph).
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