What's the difference between stridor and stridulous?
Stridor
Definition:
(n.) A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diagnosis based on the character of the stridor alone is tenuous, and consideration of presentation other than the stridor is discussed in the management of these infants.
(2) On referral to our clinic, his physical examination and tape recording were characterized by harsh inspiratory stridor.
(3) An additional patient developed an anaphylactic-type reaction with shortness of breath and respiratory stridor during the fourth course of therapy.
(4) Carefull angiographic investigation can avoid misjudging the symptoms (stridor, dysphagia) and can contribute to an exact diagnosis thus preventing unnecessary operation.
(5) The children (a two-year and a three-year old boy), who seemed completely healthy, sudden suffered from acute inflammation of the upper respiratory tract with dyspnea, inspiratory stridor, fever, dysphagia, and flow of saliva.
(6) Patients were admitted with respiratory distress, stridor, apnea, dysphagia, or recurrent respiratory infections.
(7) The patient presented with recurrent pulmonary infections and stridor due to airway obstruction.
(8) Twenty-nine patients with clinically significant stridor were monitored for an average of 12 hours.
(9) Danger signs of stridor and abnormal sleepiness were poorly recognised (sensitivity 0-50%) by the health care workers, as was audible wheeze.
(10) Presenting symptoms included dyspnea (52%), wheezing or stridor (44%), cough (41%), hemoptysis (37%), and pneumonia (18%).
(11) One-third of the infants with neuroblastoma presented with paraplegia and one-third with respiratory symptoms including wheeze, stridor and respiratory difficulty.
(12) Several clinical signs are commonly associated with this process: subcutaneous emphysema, aphonia, stridor, pneumothorax refractory to thoracostomy tube drainage, pneumomediastinum, and hemoptysis.
(13) The symptoms included inspiratory stridor, choking during eating, and aspiration.
(14) Flexion of the head worsened the stridor and caused dyspnea.
(15) Twelve patients with Chiari II malformation developed laryngeal stridor and respiratory distress.
(16) Stridor occurred in 4 patients but skin disorder was not observed.
(17) The similarity between vocal cord dysfunction presenting as stridor and that presenting as asthma is discussed.
(18) Stridor was picked up at the upper part of the air tract, from the main bronchus to the trachea, and noise was the main component on the sonogram, presumably caused by the air turbulence due to the narrowing and deformity of bronchial tube or to the sputum adhering to the inner surface of the air tract.
(19) A post-right pneumonectomy syndrome is described which manifests symptoms of exertional dyspnea and inspiratory stridor on rapid inspiration.
(20) Symptoms of laryngeal foreign body inhalation can vary greatly but usually include one or more of the following: hoarseness, croupy cough, stridor, wheezing, dyspnea, cyanosis, hemoptysis, aphonia, odynophagia, or a subjective feeling of the presence of a foreign substance.
Stridulous
Definition:
(a.) Making a shrill, creaking sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diagnostic evaluation of the stridulous child is discussed.
(2) Early visualization of the larynx should be done in patients who become stridulous when extubated, especially those with prior thoracic procedures or with neurologic disorders associated with intracranial hypertension.
(3) All these neurons are active during induced stridulation and discharge in the stridulation rhythm.
(4) In quiescent grasshoppers the G-neuron responds to auditory and vibratory stimuli, but responses to both stimuli are suppressed during stridulation in males.
(5) In males of the katydid Neoconocephalus robustus, mesothoracic wings are used in flight (wing stroke frequence = 20 Hz) and stridulation (200 Hz), while the metathoracic wings are used in flight alone.
(6) The typical exacerbation is characterized by symptoms of wheezing, dyspnea, and cough associated with the signs of tachycardia, tachypnea, hyperinflation of the thorax, and stridulous breathing.
(7) Two techniques for accurately correlating movements with vibrations produced by Pogonomyrmex Occidentalis show three characteristics of the stridulations: alternation of mean chirp intensity, higher frequencies during the upstroke, and interruption of chirps into distinct pulses.