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Definition of Aphonia

1. Noun. A disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice.

Definition of Aphonia

1. n. Loss of voice or vocal utterance.

Definition of Aphonia

1. Noun. (medicine) Loss of voice; the inability to speak ¹

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Definition of Aphonia

1. loss of voice [n -S]

Medical Definition of Aphonia

1. Inability to produce speech sounds. Often due to a disease of the voice producing structures. See: alalia. (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aphonia

Literary usage of Aphonia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris by Armand Trousseau, P. Victor Bazire, John Rose Cormack (1870)
"Different Quite* of aphonia.—From Lesion, or without Lesion of the Laryn.r. ... By the term aphonia, we mean a more or less complete loss of voice, ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1891)
"She remained under observation for about a fortnight, and had no further aphonia during that time. Laryngoscopic examination was negative. ..."

3. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1876)
"CAUSES OF aphonia. TEL PORTER, in a concise and practical paper on " aphonia, its Causes and Treatment" (St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, ..."

4. Lectures, Clinical and Didactic, on the Diseases of Women by Reuben Ludlam (1872)
"The hysterical aphonia is not very difficult of diagnosis. aphonia is never an idiopathic affection. It may arise from laryngitis Hysterical aphonia, ..."

5. A Text-book of Diseases of the Nose and Throat by David Braden Kyle (1907)
"FUNCTIONAL aphonia. Functional aphonia is a condition dependent upon systemic ... There are practically no symptoms associated with functional aphonia, ..."

6. Handbook of the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Throat, Nose, and by Carl Seiler (1883)
"This is especially the case with aphonia due to hysteria, which often requires many months of patient treatment before any improvement is noticed. ..."

7. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1870)
"This nervous aphonia often comes on suddenly, and it often passes away as ... There is a form of aphonia or weakness of voice which I look upon as the ..."

8. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1877)
"Further, I would remark that my interpretation of so-called functional aphonia, when heart disease is manifest, is far less liable to objections, and, ..."

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