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 08, 2018

stridorous

adjective
Refers to the high-pitched monophonic noise associated with croup (laryngotracheitis).

My baby has been coughing and stridorous for the past two nights.

by SMXT November 11, 2009

stridor

Someone that does not have a place to live and mooches off other peoples places. Sometimes a Stridor will be at your place when nobody else is there.

Occasionally I come home and see this stridor eating my food and sleeping on my favorite couch.

by Justin November 12, 2004