stertorousadj.
Characterized by, of the nature of, stertor or snoring:
a. Pathology.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [adjective] > snoring
snurting1567
snorting1573
snoring1688
stertorous1802
stertorious1803
rhonchal1857
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [adjective] > noisy breathing > during sleep
stertorous1802
stertorious1803
1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 80 The stertorous breathing [in apoplexy].
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash xxi The stertorous breathing recommenced.
1884 M. Mackenzie Man. Dis. Throat & Nose II. 176 He passed through an..attack of delirium tremens, falling into a deep stertorous sleep.
b. gen.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [adjective] > noisy breathing
stridulous1822
stertorous1842
cavernous1853
1842 F. E. Paget Milford Malvoisin 98 The snortings and stertorous breathings which proceeded from Mr. Blote's pew.
1877–8 Henley in Ballades & Rondeaus (Canterb. Poets) 172 A stertorous after-dinner doze.
Derivatives
ˈstertorously adv.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [adverb] > snoring
stertorously1832
1832 S. Warren Passages from Diary of Late Physician II. vi. 272 He lay in a state of profound stupor, breathing stertorously.
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xx. 200 They find Krook still sleeping like one o'clock; that is to say, breathing stertorously with his chin upon his breast.
1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. i. iii. 116 In coma..the patient breathes slowly, irregularly, and stertorously.
1910 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 606/1 The driver continued to slumber stertorously.
ˈstertorousness n.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [noun] > snoring
routingc1405
snoringc1440
snorting1575
stertorousness1845
stertoriousnessa1849
1845 E. A. Poe Facts of Mr. Valdemar's Case in Amer. Rev. Dec. 563/1 The stertorous breathing ceased—that is to say, its stertorousness was no longer apparent.
1898 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Stertorousness.
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