DC_RT's definitions

stridorous

Colloquial, non-technical alternative of stridulous. May be use of someone exhibiting stridor -- a high pitched sound caused by upper-airway swelling or restriction. Unlike stridulous, this word has more audible and written resemblance to the noun stridor.

The patient needs a dose of racemic epinephrine because he sounds stridorous.

by DC_RT July 7, 2018