STRIDOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stridor mean? 

• STRIDOR (noun)
  The noun STRIDOR has 1 sense:

1. a whistling sound when breathing (usually heard on inspiration); indicates obstruction of the trachea or larynx

  Familiarity information: STRIDOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRIDOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A whistling sound when breathing (usually heard on inspiration); indicates obstruction of the trachea or larynx

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("stridor" is a kind of...):

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

 Context examples 

Signs include a characteristic barking cough and stridor.

(Croup, NCI Thesaurus)

It presents in infancy with stridor.

(Laryngomalacia, NCI Thesaurus)

A condition characterized by resonant barking cough, hoarseness and persistant stridor and caused by allergy, foreign body, infection, or neoplasm.

(Croup, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)