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the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound

the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound

of Snore

The act of respiring through the open mouth so that the currents of inspired and expired air cause a vibration of the uvula and soft palate, thus giving rise to a sound more or less harsh. It is usually unvoluntary, but may be produced voluntarily.

Rough, noisy breathing during sleep, due to vibration of the uvula and soft palate.

See Snore.

Noise made in the posterior part of the mouth and nasal fossae during the movements of inspiration, particularly in sleep, both when the person is in health, and in disease, as in apoplexy. In certain affections of the chest- in some cases of pulmonary catarrh- a kind of snoring may he distinctly heard by applying the ear or the stethoscope to the chest.

The sound produced, especially in sleep, by breathing through the nose and mouth at the same time. It is produced by a vibration or flapping of the velum pendulum palati between the two currents of air, the sound being intensified by vibrations in the columns of air. [Old Dutch]