What's the difference between aphonia and voicelessness?
Aphonia
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Aphony
Example Sentences:
(1) We examined a 55-year-old right-handed woman showing transient coma, amnesia, mild right hemiparesis, vertical gaze impairment and aphonia without aphasia.
(2) Severe dysphonia or aphonia occurred in about one fifth of patients.
(3) Several clinical signs are commonly associated with this process: subcutaneous emphysema, aphonia, stridor, pneumothorax refractory to thoracostomy tube drainage, pneumomediastinum, and hemoptysis.
(4) 22 female patients with aphonia underwent laryngoscopic and phonic examinations, psychiatric evaluation, psychological testing and biographical history-taking.
(5) Symptoms of laryngeal foreign body inhalation can vary greatly but usually include one or more of the following: hoarseness, croupy cough, stridor, wheezing, dyspnea, cyanosis, hemoptysis, aphonia, odynophagia, or a subjective feeling of the presence of a foreign substance.
(6) This article concentrates on the treatment of psychogenic aphonia.
(7) A patient with intermittent aphonia associated with atlanto-occipital subluxation due to ankylosing spondylitis is presented and discussed.
(8) Aphonia is the extreme form of a functional voice disorder.
(9) We discuss aphonia in children, secondary to laryngeal obstruction, with regard to the development of a voice, speech, and language system that can be an effective and efficient means of communication while obstruction persists and a precursor to good voice and speech habits if and when the laryngeal function is reestablished.
(10) If there is persistent stridor and aphonia after extubation a laryngologist should be consulted.
(11) All patients had previous traumatic or prolonged endotracheal intubation requiring a tracheotomy and presented with aphonia as the major complaint.
(12) Immediate reconstruction may fail, leading to aspiration and aphonia.
(13) The most frequent symptoms in descending order of frequency, were hoarseness, dysphagia, choking spells, intermittent aphonia, and cough.
(14) Within two minutes the patient developed hypotension and extensive sensory and motor block including respiratory paralysis and aphonia.
(15) However, the number of infants and young children deprived of vocalization (aphonia) is increasing in the pediatric patient population due to tracheotomy.
(16) In 1917, he applied this concept to the treatment of hysterical aphonia and described the procedure he used in a military publication.
(17) Referring to the work of L. Binswanger, M. Boss, A. Jores and others, he demonstrates the possibility of a new understanding of the meaning of some voice and speech disorders, particularly hysterical aphonia, spastic dysphonia, stuttering and so-called functional development symptoms (which are found in the results of organic examinations in connection with speech disorders).
(18) A 59-year-old man had explosive watery diarrhoea, tendency towards collapse, flushes and aphonia.
(19) All but two of the remaining 19 patients had significant morbidity in the form of aphonia, dysphonia, or airway stenosis.
(20) The 3 other groups are much less frequent: juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis, recurrent palsy and pithiatic aphonia.