___________________ respiration is an alternating pattern of slow breathing, the absence of breathing, and rapid breathing.
Answer by Wonderful Wanda. Confidence votes 19.0K. Cheyne-Stokes respiration is an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by breathing becoming shallower until it stops for a while and then breathing starts again and rapidly crescendos to a peak before decaying away again. The pattern repeats, with one cycle typically lasting about 1 minute.