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Noisy breathing sound due to obstruction of the pharynx
Medical condition
Stertor (from
Latin stertere 'to snore') and first used in 1804,
[2] is a noisy
breathing sound like
snoring .
[3]
[4] It is caused by partial
obstruction of the upper
airways , at the level of the
nasopharynx or
oropharynx .
[1]
It is distinguished from
stridor by its pitch.
[4] Stertor is low-pitched, and can occur when breathing
in ,
out or both.
[5] Stertor and stridor can occur together, such as when
adenotonsillar hypertrophy and
laryngomalacia occur together.
[5]
^
a
b Innes, J. Alastair; Dover, Anna R.; Fairhurst, Karen; Macleod, John, eds. (2018). Macleod's Clinical Examination (14th ed.). Edinburgh London New York: Elsevier. p. 186.
ISBN
978-0-7020-6993-2 .
^
"Definition of STERTOR" . www.merriam-webster.com . Retrieved 10 January 2021 .
^ O Cathain E, Gaffey MM.
Upper Airway Obstruction . In: StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing, Treasure Island (FL); 2020.
^
a
b Englar, Ryane E. (3 July 2019).
"Stertor and Stridor" . Common Clinical Presentations in Dogs and Cats . John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: 449–461.
doi :
10.1002/9781119414612.ch34 .
ISBN
9781119414582 .
S2CID
240751218 . Retrieved 9 January 2021 .
^
a
b Ida, Jonathan; Thomson, Dana Mara (2014).
"Paediatric stridor" . In Bower, Charles M. (ed.). Common ENT Disorders in Children, An Issue of Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, E-Book . Elsevier. p. 798.
ISBN
978-0-323-32622-3 .