See Also: orthopneic(medicine)
orthopneic position(medicine)

Okie (iou) and orthopneic (medicine)


Okie (iou)



Okie noun. colloq. Chiefly US. M20.
[formed as OK(LAHOMA + -IE.]
A migrant agricultural worker; spec. one from Oklahoma who had been forced to leave a farm during the depression of the 1930s. Also, a native or inhabitant of Oklahoma.

orthopneic (medicine)


orthopneic


Relating to or characterised by orthopnea.