apnoea
noun (British English)(North American English apnea)
[uncountable] (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’.