What is another word for stridor?

Pronunciation: [stɹˈɪdɔː] (IPA)

Stridor is a medical term used to describe a high-pitched, wheezing sound that occurs during breathing. This sound is typically caused by a narrowed or obstructed airway, and it can be a symptom of various respiratory conditions. Some common synonyms for stridor include wheezing, rasping, hissing, whistling, and crowing. These terms are used to describe similar sounds that occur when air is forced through a narrowed or obstructed passage in the respiratory system. While the specific term used may vary depending on the underlying condition causing the stridor, they all describe a disturbance in the normal flow of air in the lungs.

What are the hypernyms for Stridor?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Stridor?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for stridor (as nouns)

Usage examples for Stridor

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 Alexis Thomson
A pause followed, the emptier for the preceding stridor of his voice.
"The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story"
Various

Famous quotes with Stridor

  • Instead of the poems I had hoped for, there came only a shuddering blackness and ineffable loneliness; and I saw at last a fearful truth which no one had ever dared to breathe before — the unwhisperable secret of secrets — The fact that this city of stone and stridor is not a sentient perpetuation of Old New York as London is of Old London and Paris of Old Paris, but that it is in fact quite dead, its sprawling body imperfectly embalmed and infested with queer animate things which have nothing to do with it as it was in life.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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