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Definition of Stertor
1. Noun. The act of snoring or producing a snoring sound.
Generic synonyms: Breathing, External Respiration, Respiration, Ventilation
Derivative terms: Snore, Snore, Stertorous
Definition of Stertor
1. Noun. The act of heavy snoring ¹
2. Noun. A heavy snoring sound ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stertor
1. a deep snoring sound [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stertor
Literary usage of Stertor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1860)
"In this position the stertor entirely ceased, but on resuming the supine position
it returned as loudly as before. The experiment of change of posture was ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1834)
"There was apparent difficulty, but no stertor, in the breathing, and she frothed
at the mouth. ... stertor ..."
3. A Manual of clinical medicine and physical diagnosis by Thomas Hawkes Tanner (1855)
"stertor, or stertorous breathing, is merely that form of respiration in which
each inspiration is attended with deep snoring. ..."
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