Stridor

Word STRIDOR
Character 7
Hyphenation ‖Stri dor
Pronunciations /ˈstɹɑjɾɹ̩/

Definitions and meanings of "Stridor"

What do we mean by stridor?

A harsh, shrill, grating, or creaking sound. noun

A harsh, high-pitched sound in inhalation or exhalation. noun

A harsh, creaking noise. noun

A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise. noun

A harsh, shrill, unpleasant noise. noun

A high pitched sound heard on inspiration resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway usually indicative of serious airway obstruction. noun

A whistling sound when breathing (usually heard on inspiration); indicates obstruction of the trachea or larynx noun

A harsh, shrill, unpleasant noise.

A high-pitched sound heard on inspiration resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway usually indicative of serious airway obstruction.

Someone that does not have a place to live and mooches off other peoples places. Sometimes a Stridor will be at your place when nobody else is there. Urban Dictionary

Colloquial, non-technical alternative of stridulous. May be use of someone exhibiting stridor -- a high pitched sound caused by upper-airway swelling or restriction. Unlike stridulous, this word has more audible and written resemblance to the noun stridor. Urban Dictionary

Adjective Refers to the high-pitched monophonic noise associated with croup (laryngotracheitis). Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Stridor

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The word "stridor" in example sentences

Expiratory stridor -- This occurs when your child breathes out and it indicates a problem further down the windpipe. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Noisy breathing (stridor) – An audible wheeze when your baby breathes in. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

Inspiratory stridor -- This occurs when your child breathes and it indicates a collapse of tissue above the vocal cords. ❋ Unknown (2010)

• “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. ❋ Mitchell J. Einzig (2010)

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. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2008)

His vultus minax, torvus aspectus, pallor in facie, in labiis tremor, stridor in dentibus, &c. 1692. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She asked me to go get the trauma nurse, and asked her, Does that sound like stridor to you? ❋ Susan Palwick (2007)

Her stridor (labored breathing) was so bad we call the on call ped and he said with her being so young she needs to come into the ER. ❋ Brile (2006)

Outside in the night they continued to sound on, swelling and fainting; and the listener heard in his memory, as it were their harmonies, joy-bells clashing in a northern city, and the acclamations of a multitude, the cries of battle, the gross voices of cannon, the stridor of an animated life. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Oculogyric crisis, blepharospasm, respiratory stridor with cyanosis, torticollis, and opisthotonos can occur, as well as slow, writhing movements of the extremities. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

Inspiratory stridor, with or without intercostal recession, pallor, with or without cyanosis with cough and "croupy" voice. ❋ Unknown (1993)

But as if the doctor's touch had stirred a flicker of life, the stridor took a more even rhythm, and the eyelids were seen to move. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1981)

The crimson hangings of the canopy shook in the stridor of Dr. Colin's supplication, the hollows underneath the gallery rumbled a sleepy echo; ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

The phrasing may be based on Accius 566-67 Ribbeck2 '[ora ...] _sub axe posita_ ad Stellas septem, unde horrifer/Aquilonis stridor gelidas molitur niues'. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

Occasionally [I come] home and see this stridor eating my food and [sleeping on] my favorite [couch]. ❋ Justin (2004)

[The patient] needs a [dose] of racemic [epinephrine] because he sounds stridorous. ❋ DC_RT (2018)

[My baby] has been [coughing] and stridorous for the past two [nights]. ❋ SMXT (2009)

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