stridor
a harsh, grating, or creaking sound.
Pathology. a harsh respiratory sound due to any of various forms of obstruction of the breathing passages.
Origin of stridor
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How to use stridor in a sentence
Something extraordinary rent the air, dominating with its stridor the confused sounds of night.
The Dead Command | Vicente Blasco IbezThe axillary temperature was 103°, pulse 140; slight stridor in breathing and some cough; fauces very red, but free from membrane.
“Three and three,” he shouted above the combined stridor of wind and sea.
Wild Oranges | Joseph HergesheimerA pause followed, the emptier for the preceding stridor of his voice.
In these cases there is marked stridor both on inspiration and expiration, but no aphonia.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. | Alexander Miles
British Dictionary definitions for stridor
/ (ˈstraɪdɔː) /
pathol a high-pitched whistling sound made during respiration, caused by obstruction of the air passages
mainly literary a harsh or shrill sound
Origin of stridor
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