What's the difference between stridor and wheeze?

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.

Wheeze


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
  • (n.) A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
  • (n.) An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper." It is a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
  • (2) The differential diagnosis of infantile wheezing is of particular importance in this very young age group.
  • (3) When the combination of symptoms were introduced into the regression model, the effect of wheezing became insignificant.
  • (4) The attacks were detected by audible wheeze, augmentation of diaphragm, external intercostal and sternomastoid activity, associated with distinctive changes in thoracoabdominal motion.
  • (5) However, sedation is generally not recommended for infants with acute wheezing illnesses.
  • (6) Promotion of breast feeding and reduction of maternal smoking might reduce childhood wheezing.
  • (7) In children, manifestations of IgE-mediated food allergy (often in association with other immune mechanisms) include self-limiting and immediate reactions (e.g., urticaria, wheeze) and chronic diseases (food-sensitive enteropathies, eczema).
  • (8) From the response to the ATS-DLD-78-C respiratory symptoms questionnaire, 14 subjects (3.1%) were found to have asthma syndrome (recurrent episodes of attacks of shortness of breath with wheezing) and 17 subjects (3.7%), wheezing syndrome (only wheezing).
  • (9) Between 1981 and 1990 there was a 10.7% increase in the number of children who had been to their general practitioner for wheeze (p less than 0.001), a 5.3% increase in children who were on daily medication (p less than 0.001) and a 8.2% increase in the family history of asthma (p less than 0.001).
  • (10) The joint effect of smoking and phlegm as well as that of smoking and wheezing was close to being multiplicative.
  • (11) Increasing values for the sum of scores for the seven RAST tests were associated with progressively lower mean levels of small airways function in boys with histories of recurrent wheezing LRI during the preschool years.
  • (12) Danger signs of stridor and abnormal sleepiness were poorly recognised (sensitivity 0-50%) by the health care workers, as was audible wheeze.
  • (13) Presenting symptoms included dyspnea (52%), wheezing or stridor (44%), cough (41%), hemoptysis (37%), and pneumonia (18%).
  • (14) Wheezes were detected in running spectra of lung sounds by use of a frequency domain peak detection algorithm.
  • (15) One-third of the infants with neuroblastoma presented with paraplegia and one-third with respiratory symptoms including wheeze, stridor and respiratory difficulty.
  • (16) All wheezing visits to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Emergency Department were analyzed for 1982 and 1983, for ages two to 18.
  • (17) It is suggested that the stable acoustic properties obtained by this preparation may become useful in the analysis of mechanisms of wheezing lung sounds generation.
  • (18) Two of the four seronegative children developed a mild illness characterized by rhinorrhea and wheezing on auscultation; none had fever.
  • (19) Nevertheless the evidence for viral trigger of wheezing and long-term pulmonary sequelae must be considered and prevention must be undertaken at the first episode.
  • (20) Slight wheezing was noted 8 months before the monkey died.

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