Whether you call it by its slang name, "sawing logs," or its medical name, "stertor," snoring is common. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Respiration was irregular, sometimes sighing; in the late stage often of the Cheyne-Stokes type; actual stertor was exceptional, but the respiration was often noisy. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
When persons in good health are suddenly seized with pains in the head, and straightway are laid down speechless, and breathe with stertor, they die in seven days, unless fever come on. From Wordnik.com. [Aphorisms] Reference
The breathing is marked with great stertor, the pulse is very slow and irregular, cold sweats break out in patches on the surface of the body, and the animal often dies without having recovered consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
After violent screaming she fell into convulsions, which terminated sometimes in fainting, with or without stertor, as in common epilepsy; at other times a tempory insanity supervened; which continued about half an hour, and the fit ceased. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
There is no stertor. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond the City]
He sleeps without stertor. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
If, however, his expectations in this regard are disappointed, -- if sensibility and motion fail to return, while coma and stertor increase, in despite of the most energetic antiphlogistic measures, showing such an augmentation of congestion in the cerebral substance as immediately jeopardizes the patient's life, then, the Surgeon may resort to the trephine as a "forlorn hope" whether the fracture be simple, compound, or comminuted, or whatever the nature and limits of the injury. From Wordnik.com. [An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.] Reference
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