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Ondine's curse

is a kind of:

[Ondine was a] Greek mythology divinity condemned to stay awake in order to breathe. Gave name to Ondine's curse, an obsolete term for central sleep apnea with severe hypoventilation.

Definition reprinted with permission from Culebras, Antonio, Clinical Handbook of Sleep Disorders, Butterworth-Heinemann

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