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snorefest

1. Some event or situation in which people spend a lot of time sleeping. My son is having some friends over for the night. They're always really rowdy until the early hours, but then it's usually a snorefest the whole next day.
2. Some event or situation that causes one to fall asleep because it is so boring or unstimulating. This director's work is usually really interesting, but I found his latest film to be a total snorefest.
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Curta stresses the importance for people who snore to get screened for OSA, and cautioned that those with OSA should be properly treated.
Some people who do not usually snore can sometimes snore after drinking.
Nigel said I definitely didn't snore as often or as loudly.
Stop smoking: Smokers are around twice as likely to snore as non-smokers because the habit causes nasal congestion and inflammation.
Sleeping on one's back produces a loud snore as gravity causes the throat muscles to collapse.
The patient went to bed at midnight and produced one snoring sound at 1:07 am (55 dB), one at 2:43 am (55 dB), and twenty snoring sounds at 2:54 am (55-60 dB) for a rate of 11.4 snores per hour.
Graham Carr Smith, director of remedy company Helps Stop Snoring, which launched the campaign, said: "It's clear that a lot of women snore and the problem is getting worse, with doctors claiming up to 40 per cent of snorers are women.
Is this true, as my son snores loudly most nights?" A; Dean Beebe, of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre in the US, who has just led as study into the effect of snoring on children's behaviour, says: "Yes, there seems to be a link between loud, persistent snoring and behaviour problems in young children.
That may or may not be true, but many a woman would say that her husband and the dog have begun to snore alike.
No one had ever seen a dog as lazy as Old Snore. To him, just scratching fleas could be an overwhelming chore!
I could have got a prize for acting as I snored through the major part of the following night, which had him tossing and turning, with no opportunity to either sleep or snore.
"Brachycephalic cats--those with snub or flat noses and small nostrils, such as Persians, often snore because the nasal tissue vibrates when the air goes out," says Ursula Krotscheck, DVD, an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Children with frequent, loud snoring are significantly more likely to develop recurrent otitis media and to require tympanostomy tubes than are children who don't snore, based on data from more than 16,000 children aged 5-7 years.
When Sweetie Pie decided to inspect the neighborhood, she stumbled onto Snore who lay there like a block of wood.