From French anapnographe, coined by the device's inventors Léon Bergeon and M. Kastus in the 1860s, from Ancient Greek ἀναπνοή ("recovery of breath; respiration") (from ἀναπνέω, from ἀνα- + πνέω) + French -graphe (see ).
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