Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Loss of the voice resulting from disease, injury to the vocal cords, or various psychological causes, such as hysteria.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, loss of voice through a morbid condition of the larynx or its immediate innervation; dumbness; speechlessness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Loss of voice or vocal utterance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine Loss of
voice ; theinability tospeak
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Another time he lost his voice, a condition known as aphonia, which can have psychological causes.
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Quite the provocative tribute to her three months aphonia marathon at the MoMa.
Benedetta Pignatelli: Honey, I Ate the Art Benedetta Pignatelli 2011
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Quite the provocative tribute to her three months aphonia marathon at the MoMa.
Benedetta Pignatelli: Honey, I Ate the Art Benedetta Pignatelli 2011
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Quite the provocative tribute to her three months aphonia marathon at the MoMa.
Benedetta Pignatelli: Honey, I Ate the Art Benedetta Pignatelli 2011
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The point is not an easy one — this relation of thought to non-voice: We can only think if language is not our voice, only if we reach our own aphonia at its very bottom
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Turning radically back, in death, from its having been thrown into Da, Dasein's negative retrieves its own aphonia (60).
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The first areas to become paralyzed are usually the throat and larynx, resulting in aphonia, dysphagia, and complete aphagia.
The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985
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Then there may be spasms, convulsions, retention of urine, paralysis, aphonia (loss of voice), blindness, and a lot more.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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In children, hysterical pain, hysterical contractures or palsies, mutism, and aphonia are the most usual symptoms.
The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron
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The same may be said of feigned insanity, aphonia, deaf-mutism, and loss of memory.
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