STERTOR
\stˈɜːtə], \stˈɜːtə], \s_t_ˈɜː_t_ə]\
Definitions of STERTOR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1895 - Glossary of terms and phrases
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
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The deep snoring which accompanies inspiration in some diseases, particularly in apoplexy. Such respiration is said to be ster'torous, (F.) Stertoreux; Respira'tio stertuo'sa seu stertens seu stertoro’sa.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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[L.] A rough, hoarse noise (not snoring, which is confined to the nose, but) extending to the throat; a condition of disease indicating apoplexy, or epilepsy, or narcotic poisoning, or injury of the head; often mistaken, very unfortunately, for a sign of drunkenness.
By Henry Percy Smith
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