= STERTOROUS, -NESS.
1803. Med. Jrnl., X. 246. The sickness had considerably abated, his respiration less stertorious.
a. 1849. Poe, Facts Case M. Valdemar, Wks. 1865, I. 125. The stertorious breathing ceased—that is to say, its stertoriousness was no longer apparent.
