stertor

IPA: stˈɛrtɝ

(biology, medicine) The act of snoring, especially heavy snoring.
(biology, medicine) A snoring sound, as for example even during wakefulness in infants with breathing difficulties.

Examples of "stertor" in Sentences

The patient is said to suffer from stertor.
It is important to distinguish stertor with stridor.
It is important to distinguish stertor from stridor.
In the _coma_ of _uræmia_ or of _diabetes_ there is no true paralysis, nor is there stertor.
Whether you call it by its slang name, "sawing logs," or its medical name, "stertor," snoring is common.
Recently a dose of ninety-six grains, taken toxically, produced giddiness, then epileptic convulsions, with dilated pupils, and stertor of breathing.
Respiration was irregular, sometimes sighing; in the late stage often of the Cheyne-Stokes type; actual stertor was exceptional, but the respiration was often noisy.
When persons in good health are suddenly seized with pains in the head, and straightway are laid down speechless, and breathe with stertor, they die in seven days, unless fever come on.
The breathing is marked with great stertor, the pulse is very slow and irregular, cold sweats break out in patches on the surface of the body, and the animal often dies without having recovered consciousness.
After violent screaming she fell into convulsions, which terminated sometimes in fainting, with or without stertor, as in common epilepsy; at other times a tempory insanity supervened; which continued about half an hour, and the fit ceased.