adverb
- in a manner characterized by heavy snoring or labored breathing
Usage: medical
Examples
- The patient breathed stertorously throughout the night.
- He slept stertorously, disturbing everyone in the room.
- The old man wheezed stertorously as he climbed the stairs.
- She could hear him breathing stertorously from across the hall.
- The doctor noted that the patient was breathing stertorously.
- After the surgery, he breathed stertorously for several hours.