What's the difference between aphonic and phonic?

Aphonic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Aphonous

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patient was a 34 year-old male who became completely aphonic following a grippal infection.
  • (2) The study reviewed the case histories of 14 young aphonics.
  • (3) As he spoke, the rate of speech gradually increased, the loudness reduced, and finally he began to whisper (palilalie aphone).
  • (4) She always repeated twice or three times without stuttering, logoclonus or "palilalie aphone".
  • (5) Results of the review indicated that while approximately 10% fewer patients in the primary group were using a surgically restored voice, none of the surviving primary group remained aphonic.
  • (6) Seven patients who were aphonic had voice improvement.
  • (7) This case report describes the successful though temporary removal of a hysterical aphonic symptom in a 49-year-old male patient by using visual feedback of changes in vocal intensity.
  • (8) Two of these patients were aphonic and had laryngeal paralysis.
  • (9) Patients may be aphonic or intubated due to the injury, and important historical facts may not be available.
  • (10) The purpose of this paper is to present a child who was aphonic at birth and who was later found to have a congenital anterior cleft of the larynx.
  • (11) The techniques of arytenoid rotation and Isshiki's type I thyroplasty are described in detail and the result of a combination of these procedures is illustrated by a case history of an aphonic patient with unilateral vagus nerve paralysis and subsequent severe incomplete glottal closure during phonation.
  • (12) The voice was normal or dysphonic in 86% of cases while aphonic in 14% of cases.
  • (13) She was tracheostomized and generally aphonic from 0.5-1.8 but cognitively and socially normal, with near-normal comprehension of language.

Phonic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ladybird: I’m Ready to Spell has a space theme, and is based on the phonics that kids will be learning in their first years at school.
  • (2) That suggests a social problem with deeper roots, as revealed by the latest results from the government's phonics check – gauging reading skills among five and six-year-olds at state primary schools – which showed that 180,000 children in England failed to meet the DfE's standard.
  • (3) In English, the expert group criticises the draft, saying "an over-emphasis on synthetic phonics in the early years excludes other strategies and is likely to lower standards of reading".
  • (4) 22 female patients with aphonia underwent laryngoscopic and phonic examinations, psychiatric evaluation, psychological testing and biographical history-taking.
  • (5) Despite the overt nature of most motor and phonic tic phenomena, the development of valid and reliable scales to rate tic severity has been an elusive goal.
  • (6) Two hyperactive boys who had developed motor and phonic tics during stimulant treatment reacted similarly to low doses of haloperidol and thioridazine.
  • (7) Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric movement disorder characterized by the presence of multiple motor and phonic tics.
  • (8) None of the patients receiving nifedipine improved, but treatment with flunarizine significantly decreased both motor and phonic tic severity and frequency in all but one patient.
  • (9) iPad Ladybird: I’m Ready to Spell (£2.99) Released by book publisher Penguin, this is aimed mainly at schoolchildren preparing for their first phonics screening check, with three space-themed mini-games designed to test their spelling skills.
  • (10) A motion approved by the conference also called for "an alliance of forces" to oppose and boycott the phonics check, a reading and literacy assessment applied to pupils in England at the end of year one.
  • (11) The YGTSS provides an evaluation of the number, frequency, intensity, complexity, and interference of motor and phonic symptoms.
  • (12) At the beginning of the school year, 80 first graders, half receiving phonics instruction and half receiving whole word instruction, were asked to spell, read aloud, and recognize 60 regular and exception words.
  • (13) All aspects of phonics, but especially the sounds of the short vowels, were a problem.
  • (14) Correct diagnosis of TS is important to appropriate treatment, rather than assuming that motor and phonic tics and other associated TS symptoms are necessarily a function of a more pervasive developmental disorder in a disturbed mentally retarded person.
  • (15) Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterised by changing motor and phonic tics, compulsive actions, and other behavioural symptoms.
  • (16) Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a chronic neuropsychiatric disorder of childhood onset that is characterized by multiple motor and phonic tics that wax and wane in severity and an array of behavioral problems including some forms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) (1).
  • (17) During phonic analysis, the teacher directed the child to attend to various phonetic elements of the error word and to "sound out" the word.
  • (18) Nine hearing aids were evaluated three times in each of the four systems: a standard Bruel and Kjaer apparatus, a Fonix 5000, and both a Phonic Ear HC 1000 and HC 2000.
  • (19) We do some things very traditionally: children learn to read with synthetic phonics, they learn grammar.
  • (20) We studied nine patients with motor and phonic tics and other features of Tourette's syndrome, who developed persistent dystonia in addition to their tics.

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