Stridor

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stridor \Stri"dor\, n. [L., from stridere to make any harsh,
     grating, or creaking sound.]
     A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise. --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  stridor
       n : a whistling sound when breathing (usually heard on
           inspiration); indicates obstruction of the trachea or
           larynx

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "stridor":
     acuteness, arguteness, atonalism, atonality, cacophony, clinker,
     creakiness, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony,
     dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, flatness, highness,
     inharmoniousness, inharmony, off note, pipingness, reediness,
     screechiness, sharpness, shrillness, sour note, sourness,
     stridence, stridency, stridulousness, tunelessness,
     unharmoniousness, unmusicality, untunefulness, wolf