stridor

IPA: strˈaɪdɝ

noun

  • A harsh, shrill, unpleasant noise.
  • (medicine) A high-pitched sound heard on inspiration resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway usually indicative of serious airway obstruction.
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Examples of "stridor" in Sentences

  • A special type of wheeze is stridor.
  • It is important to distinguish stertor with stridor.
  • It is important to distinguish stertor from stridor.
  • As croup worsens, stridor may decrease considerably.
  • The most frequent sign is the rapid development of stridor.
  • Stridor will be provoked or worsened by agitation or crying.
  • Marketing also linked Fisto to the Heroic Warriors' war horse Stridor.
  • Noisy breathing (stridor) – An audible wheeze when your baby breathes in.
  • The usual symptom of tracheomalacia is expiratory stridor or laryngeal crow.
  • Expiratory stridor -- This occurs when your child breathes out and it indicates a problem further down the windpipe.
  • Inspiratory stridor -- This occurs when your child breathes and it indicates a collapse of tissue above the vocal cords.
  • It is not what Briony needs—if she had been having stridor, we would have heard the noise in her throat with each sharp intake of air.
  • Biphasic stridor -- This occurs when your child breathes in and out, and it indicates a narrowing of the subglottis, the cartilage right below the vocal cords.
  • I have witnessed what would seem to be a tonic seizure where the muscles become rigid, the back is arched, I hear a stridor breathing pattern and sometimes Elizabeth screams.
  • • “Barky” cough that sounds similar to the barking of a seal or dog; making a harsh, raspy, whooping sound when inhaling stridor; drooling; loss of appetite; disinterest in drinking fluids; too tired to cough.

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