" respiratory distress syndrome "

[Noun]  | "respiratory distress syndrome" 

1: a respiratory disorder chiefly of newborn premature infants that is characterized by deficiency of the surfactant coating the inner surface of the lungs resulting in labored breathing, lung collapse, and hypoxemia

Origin: 1964 ;

[Noun]  | "acute respiratory distress syndrome" 

1: respiratory failure of sudden onset in adults or children that follows injury to the endothelium of the lung (as in sepsis, chest trauma, massive blood transfusion, aspiration of the gastric contents, or pneumonia) and results in the accumulation of protein-rich fluid and the collapse of alveoli leading to difficult, rapid breathing and very low levels of oxygen in the blood —abbreviation ARD—called also adult respiratory distress syndrome

Origin: 1981 ;

[Noun]  | "adult respiratory distress syndrome" 

1: acute respiratory distress syndrome

Origin: 1972 ;