Translation for "luftnot" to english

Luftnot

• shortness of breath
• shortage of air

Translation examples

shortness of breath

Am Sonntagnachmittag war Doktor Fernau gekommen, hatte ihn abgehorcht und abgepocht mit seinen von hunderttausend Beklopfungen schon verbreiterten Fingern, dem Plessimeter-Mittelfinger links und dem Perkussions-Mittelfinger rechts, wie Richard erklärte (und niemand verstand), und alle Finger Fernaus waren borstig behaart, sie hatten Christian betastet oder vielmehr: geknetet, was an den Muskeln ziemlich weh tat, so daß Fernau die Stirn gerunzelt und »Schließ Er Seinen Wirsing!« gerüffelt hatte, um ungerührt weiterzukneten, die Lymphknoten zu untersuchen, wobei er unerwartet zart vorging, so daß Christian, der sich auf Luftnot gefaßt gemacht hatte, vor Erstaunen schluckte.
Doctor Fernau had come on Sunday afternoon, had auscultated and percussed him with fingers flattened by a hundred thousand percussions, the pleximeter middle finger on the left, the percussion middle finger on the right, as Richard explained (and no one understood), and all of Fernau’s fingers had bristly hair, they had felt or, rather, kneaded Christian, which hurt quite a bit on his muscles so that Fernau had frowned, told him to Shut His Trap, and continued to knead unmoved, to examine his lymph glands, which he did unexpectedly gently so that Christian, who had anticipated being short of breath, swallowed in astonishment.