It is important to distinguish stertor from stridor.

It seemed to David that it might stop altogether, but within a minute, coarse, rhythmic stertor developed and held.

There is no stertor.

But this is a depressed cranial fracture, sir, and I must use the trephine: here he lies - you notice the characteristic stertor?

Whether you call it by its slang name, "sawing logs," or its medical name, "stertor," snoring is common.

I do know something of physic, and am persuaded this is a cerebral commotion - not a full coma, since there is no stertor - which must be treated by rest, quiet, darkness.

In 1891 he presented a paper with the title On Stertor, Apoplexy, and the Management of the Apoplectic State in relation to stroke patients with noisy breathing from airway obstruction (also known as stertor).