stridor

This woman’s breath was noisiest when she inhaled — a type of wheeze known as stridor.

He still suggests easing coughing and stridor by running a humidifier, however, or by having kids breathe in a room with a steamy shower or bath.

It didn’t explain the stridor, which was his greatest concern.

During that visit, Welch said, Joseph did not cough, although he tried to re-create the high-pitched wheezing, called stridor, which characterized his coughing episodes, as his mother described the sound.

The axillary temperature was 103°, pulse 140; slight stridor in breathing and some cough; fauces very red, but free from membrane.