stertor

Thân thiện

A patient in a hospital bed produces a loud stertor while sleeping.

Definition

Noun: 1. The act of snoring or producing a snoring sound: A heavy, noisy, or labored sound made during breathing while asleep, often due to obstructed airways. 2. The sound of snoring itself: The specific harsh, rattling noise produced.

Usage

Stertor is a formal or medical term. It is typically used in clinical or descriptive contexts to refer to abnormal, heavy breathing sounds associated with conditions like sleep apnea, obstruction, or neurological issues. It is less common in everyday conversation than the word snoring.

Examples

• The doctor noted the patient's pronounced stertor as a symptom of potential upper airway obstruction.
• The quiet room was disturbed only by the old man's stertor.
• A significant change in the character of the infant's stertor prompted further medical investigation.

Advanced Usage

• Stertorous (adj.): Characterized by heavy snoring or labored breathing.
  • Example: He fell into a stertorous sleep immediately after the long journey.

Variants and Related Words

• Stertorous (adjective): Describing something that involves or sounds like stertor.
• Snore (verb/noun): The more common, everyday term for the act or sound of breathing noisily during sleep.

Synonyms

• Snoring
• Snore
• Rhonchus (a medical term for a coarse rattling sound in the lungs, sometimes used similarly in broader contexts)

Antonyms

• Quiet breathing
• Silent respiration

Học thuật

Noun

1. the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound

Từ đồng nghĩa

• snore
• snoring