Also 7 stridour. [a. L. strīdor, f. strīdĕre: see STRIDENT a. Cf. F. strideur.]
1. A harsh, high-pitched sound, a shrill grating or creaking noise.
1632. W. Lithgow, Trav., X. 439. Least … for the stridor of his teeth his charges be redoubled.
1649. Bulwer, Pathomyot., II. i. 90. That hated stridor that is so offensive to the Eares of those.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, XI. 1258. Juturna … knew th ’ill Omen, by her screaming Cry, And stridour of her Wings.
1778. W. Pryce, Min. Cornub., 69. Bend a piece of pure Tin, or bite it hard, and it will give a crashing noise or stridor.
1846. Landor, Imag. Conv., Southey & Landor, Wks. 1853, II. 65/2. Now there never was an arrow in the world that made a horrible stridor in its course.
1880. A. H. Swinton, Insect Variety, 152. Thus, if two males be confined, they maintain incessant stridor.
a. 1894. Stevenson, Lay Morals, etc. (1911), 290. The listener heard in his memory … the stridor of an animated life.
2. Path. A harsh, vibrating noise produced by some bronchial, tracheal or laryngeal obstruction. (Syd. Soc. Lex.)
1876. Bristowe, Theory & Pract. Med. (1878), 559. The patient suffers from more or less stridor of the breath sounds.
1898. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 280. The tracheal stridor and brassy cough. Ibid., VI. 376. The peculiar importance of laryngeal stridor with dyspnœa is not merely diagnostic.
