ap·noe·a
noun/ˈæpniə/
/ˈæpniə/
(British English) (North American English apnea)
[uncountable] (medical)- a condition in which somebody stops breathing for a short time, especially while they are sleeping
（睡眠）呼吸暂停 Oxford Collocations DictionaryApnoea/apnea is used after these nouns:- sleep
Word Originearly 18th cent.: modern Latin, from Greek apnoia, from apnous ‘breathless’.