many words have many definitions, you have to select the right one, another definition of 'frank' is a hot dog..Wulfman... wrote:Not necessarily. And, I don't see the difference in your trying to split hairs. From the discussions on the forum and the definitions, a "frank" apnea is an "abrupt" (fully developed, clinically evident, obvious and unmistakable) apnea without preceding snores, flow limitations or other events that the manufacturers use in their programming to "predict" an apnea that may sneak into the chain of breathing events. By definition, an apnea is "lack of breath" for 10 seconds or more.palerider wrote: it's a misuse of a term, by definition, "frank" in medical parlance means "obvious" ... here it's being misused as "sudden, unexpected".
quoting definitions:
Medicine
unmistakable; obvious.
"frank ulceration"
1: marked by free, forthright, and sincere expression <a frank reply>
2a : unmistakably evident <frank materialism>
2b : clinically evident and unmistakable <frank pus>
the clinical meaning of frank has nothing whatsoever to do with "without preceding snores, flow limitations or other events..." ALL apneas are frank apneas.
if you're going to use frank, and quote it, as if to make it a special word, in a clinical/medical useage, you should use it the way it's defined... obvious.
the word "sudden" would be much more appropriate for what you're trying to say, and wouldn't confuse tangledhose (and likely others) like what you're doing.
