(n.) The act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate, thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh. It is usually unvoluntary, but may be produced voluntarily.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aside from snoring, excessive daytime sleepiness was on average often the first symptom and began at a mean age of 36 years.
(2) The footballer said the noise of the engine was too loud to hear if Cameron snored but his night "wasn't the best".
(3) Epidemiological criteria for a causal association between snoring and vascular disease have not been satisfied.
(4) Patients who had nasal polypectomy as part of their nasal surgery obtained the greatest snoring relief.
(5) Diclofenac sodium suppositories 150-200 mg day-1 were compared with placebo in a double-blind study during the first 3 days after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty in 40 patients with habitual snoring or obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome.
(6) Alcohol consumption, estimated by questionnaire and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase was unrelated to a history of snoring.
(7) We compared self- and spouse reports of snoring and other symptoms of sleep apnea syndrome ascertained from married couples in a community-based survey.
(8) Snoring history was obtained from 326 patients and 345 controls.
(9) Snoring occurs in at least 20% of the population; 50% of the 50 year old male snore.
(10) When you breathe, air makes them vibrate against each other, which is what makes the characteristic snoring noise," she says.
(11) Emily Marbach In desperation one night I asked my husband, who snores like a train, to sleep in our repeatedly waking baby's room ...
(12) The demented patients were reported to snore twice as frequently as the control subjects (P less than 0.05).
(13) Snoring usually is trivial and unimportant, but it can turn into a social or medical problem.
(14) To select heavy-snoring subjects for a treatment protocol, volunteers were screened for one night, breathing air the first half and oxygen the second half of the night.
(15) Generally, associations between snoring and sleep apnea were independent of age and sex.
(16) This hypothesis is mainly based on epidemiological studies showing a statistically significant association between snoring and arterial hypertension; this association remains true even after data correction to take into account the increased frequency of snoring with age and overweight.
(17) The effects of prolonged snoring on alveolar ventilation and systemic pressure(s) suggest that this snoring has physiopathological implications on maternal cardio-respiratory reserve and indirectly upon the fetus, especially as there are recordable changes in fetal heart rate and also a change in the acid-base status of the fetus.
(18) 4) Pharyngeal size during snoring is probably larger in HS than in OSA patients.
(19) My study indicates that snoring may be a risk factor for ischemic stroke, possibly because of the higher prevalence of an obstructive sleep apnea syndrome among snorers than nonsnorers.
(20) The third and fourth groups were formed by 100 snoring and 100 non-snoring patients without risk factors.
Snorting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snort
Example Sentences:
(1) The disposition of radiolabeled cocaine in humans has been studied after three routes of administration: iv injection, nasal insufflation (ni, snorting), and smoke inhalation (si).
(2) Symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, a potentially life-threatening disorder, include excessive daytime sleepiness and sleep attacks, nocturnal breath cessation, and snorting and gasping sounds.
(3) In this case a 29-year-old White man presented to the emergency room 3 days after he 'snorted' approximately 200mg of colchicine powder.
(4) The Ohio native suffered from PTSD and a traumatic brain injury, his lawyers say, and he had been drinking contraband alcohol and snorting Valium – both provided by other soldiers – the night of the killings.
(5) Further evidence of apnea can be obtained by determining the presence of the additional signs of loud nocturnal snorting and gasping sounds and nocturnal breath cessations.
(6) The execution of Joseph Wood in Arizona, which left the convicted killer “gasping and snorting” for two hours as the state put him to death, is the third botched delivery of capital punishment this year.
(7) It has moments of snort-out-loud laughter (the paddle steamer named the Wonderful Fanny, the Jane Austen vignette – see below).
(8) Spall's performance has been much celebrated for its emotional depth, despite Turner's vocabulary in the film often consisting of grunts, snorts and spitting saliva onto the canvas.
(9) She won’t say if she’d quit the party if he won, “because it’s not going to happen”, but when later I ask if she would defect from the Tory party today, had she not done so in 2013, she snorts: “Not if Raheem were leading the party.
(10) Most of the time the cast hadn't seen the script until this moment, so the frequent snorts of laughter were music to our ears.
(11) "Nothing to celebrate on the Champs Elysees," snorts Paul Griffin.
(12) Since that time he has been gasping, snorting, and unable to breathe and not dying.
(13) When asked about his inclusion, in 1995, on New York Magazine’s 100 Smartest New Yorkers list, he snorted.
(14) In Crank, famously, he is injected with a poison that will kill him if his adrenaline level drops, leading him to snort cocaine, get in a lot of fights and have sex with his girlfriend in front of a crowd of cheering tourists.
(15) In this study, we are interested in the character of the mucosa and their changes as affected by long-term injury from the trauma of the inspiratory and expiratory air currents, which, on sniffling or snorting, may reach hurricane speeds.
(16) The STS gene has been localised by deletion mapping to the distal tip of the snort arm of the X chromosome, and is of interest in that it appears to escape X-inactivation.
(17) Does the public have an “interest” in what all politicians once said, drank, smoked or snorted, or what they got up to with their lovers or stockbrokers?
(18) They nudge the soft earth or a companion before snorting and continuing on up through the paddocks to the shed.
(19) Recreational cocaine abuse via intranasal "snorting," "free-base" smoking, "body-packing," or intravenous injection can be lethal.
(20) Jon Stewart, who has taken to the story of the crack-smoking mayor like Ford to the pipe, laughed at the city council's apparent toothlessness when attempting to strip him of his mayoral position: "That's justice, Canadian style," he snorted.