Related Searches

stertor

[stur-ter]

ster·tor

[stur-ter]
noun Pathology.
a heavy snoring sound accompanying respiration in certain diseases.

Origin:
1795–1805; < Latin stert(ere) to snore + -or1
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source Link To stertor

00:10

00:09

00:08

00:07

00:06

00:05

00:04

00:03

00:02

00:01

Stertor is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Collins
World English Dictionary
stertor (ˈstɜːtə)
 
n
laborious or noisy breathing caused by obstructed air passages
 
[C17: from New Latin, from Latin stertere to snore]

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
American Heritage
Medical Dictionary

stertor ster·tor (stûr'tər)
n.
A heavy snoring inspiratory sound occurring in coma or deep sleep, sometimes due to obstruction of the larynx or upper airways.


ster'to·rous adj.
ster'to·rous·ly adv.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Cite This Source
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT