(superl.) Having a harsh, rough, grating voice or sound, as when affected with a cold; making a rough, harsh cry or sound; as, the hoarse raven.
(superl.) Harsh; grating; discordant; -- said of any sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 50-year-old woman with a 27-year history of ankylosing spondylitis developed cricoarytenoid joint arthritis that was indicated by hoarseness, sore throat, and vocal cord fixation.
(2) The spectrum of disabilities attendant to laryngeal paralysis range from mild hoarseness to complete upper airway obstruction depending upon the static position of the paralyzed cord or cords.
(3) Patients usually complain of hoarseness and almost 50% present with cervical lymph node metastases.
(4) Two middle-aged subjects, a male and female, with spastic dysphonia (hoarseness, stammering) were treated with both frontalis and throat muscle electromyographic (EMG) biofeedback.
(5) There was no evidence for dysphagia, respiratory abnormality, or hoarse voice in any other relative.
(6) This report reviews the literature and presents the case of a 10-year-old girl with a neck mass and hoarseness due to an osteochondroma of the cervical spine.
(7) We report a case of disseminated coccidioidomycosis that involved the larynx and cervical lymph nodes in a 40-year-old white woman who presented with hoarseness and unsuspected airway compromise.
(8) At the end of the tests the development of the most significative symptomatologic parameters has been analysed according to the Wilcoxon test: quantity, kind and characteristics of nasal secretions, nasal obstruction, phlogosis of the nasal and pharyngeal mucosa, hoarseness, difficulty in catarrhal expectoration, hypoacusia, retraction of the tympanic membrane.
(9) A high index of suspicion of tuberculosis is important in the differential diagnosis of neck swellings, hoarseness and otorrhoea.
(10) Foreign body sensation, difficulty in swallowing, and hoarseness may all stem from one entity or may be totally unrelated.
(11) Hoarseness, asthma, and bronchitis are common but sometimes obscure manifestations of gastroesophageal reflux, the etiology of when respiratory symptoms predominate.
(12) Compared with patients with M. pneumoniae, patients with C. pneumoniae were less likely to have a temperature greater than 37.8 degrees C (10% vs. 34%), but were more likely to present with a sore throat (80% vs. 52%) or hoarseness (30% vs. 3%).
(13) Causes of hoarseness after thyroidectomy could be mild recurrent superior laryngeal or combined nerve paralysis.
(14) Other features which conform to previous reports are a peculiar face with a long philtrum, protuberant lower lip, relative micrognathia, large dysplastic ears, excessive loose skin folds around the scalp, neck and trunk, large hands with camptodactyly, varus deformities of the feet and a hoarse, low-pitched voice.
(15) They most frequently occur in young women, are unilateral in 98 p cent of cases, and are manifest after a long period by endocrine signs (75 p. cent of cases) whose most frequent combination is: amenorrhea-hirsutism-hoarse voice.
(16) On the basis of several case examples, in which dysphagia and hoarseness were caused by a submucosal thickening of the arytenoid and aryepiglottic fold, the authors propose that these unclear symptoms also be regarded as indication for larynx CT.
(17) After operation most of them were uneventful, but 2 experienced TIA, 2 contralateral reversible weakness and 1 mild hoarseness.
(18) Claudio Ranieri cautious but says everything is in Leicester City’s hands Read more But this is one area in which the manager is failing; his players are openly talking about finishing on top, while the supporters are practically singing themselves hoarse in anticipation of a first top division crown in the club’s history.
(19) The most common symptoms were hoarseness (71%), cough (51%), globus (47%), and throat clearing (42%).
(20) Most symptoms occurred in the first week except voice changes (hoarseness and weakness) which did not occur until the third week of treatment.
Sore
Definition:
(n.) Reddish brown; sorrel.
(n.) A young hawk or falcon in the first year.
(n.) A young buck in the fourth year. See the Note under Buck.
(superl.) Tender to the touch; susceptible of pain from pressure; inflamed; painful; -- said of the body or its parts; as, a sore hand.
(superl.) Fig.: Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
(superl.) Severe; afflictive; distressing; as, a sore disease; sore evil or calamity.
(superl.) Criminal; wrong; evil.
(a.) A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil.
(1) In the HCD group, 66 (86.8%) pressure sores improved compared with 36 (69.2%) pressure sores in the wet-to-dry dressings group.
(2) Both beds are excellent in preventing Pressure Sores.
(3) Most infections have flu-like symptoms including fever, coughing, sore throat, runny nose, and aches and pains.
(4) Plastic surgeons have contributed to the understanding of pressure sore pathophysiology and prophylaxis.
(5) A review of 103 surgically closed pressure sores shows unsatisfactory results.
(6) A 50-year-old woman with a 27-year history of ankylosing spondylitis developed cricoarytenoid joint arthritis that was indicated by hoarseness, sore throat, and vocal cord fixation.
(7) As the metaphors we are using to conduct it show, the migration debate in Britain is sorely in need of some perspective.
(8) Subjects with cancer were paired with subjects without cancer based on age (mean = 78), sex, and pressure sore risk.
(9) The pressure sore resulted from the commonly practised habit of grasping the upright of the wheel chair with the upper arm in order to gain stability.
(10) I was sorely tempted but in the end I simply paid the fine.
(11) Sore arm after vaccination was reported most frequently in younger female participants; however, sore arm was accepted as part of the process of vaccination and not considered a reaction by most.
(12) Systematic, prospective epidemiological studies of these agents in well-defined populations of various age groups are sorely needed for definition of the relative importance of each agent in human disease.
(13) Instead of pulling off a rapprochement, the Brown ended up opening a new sore and he is, in all likelihood, on another collision course with his backbenchers, who have already recoiled from attempts to attach conditions to other welfare reforms.
(14) The proportion of culture sore-throat patients returned to the original 55% level after an initial period of enthusiasm.
(15) Experts have said that Apple sorely needed to produce a phone with music capabilities as long-term protection for the lucrative iPod, which has helped boost the company's profits to record levels.
(16) The least severe sore (type 1) can be protected using polyurethane film dressings.
(17) Two ten-minute rapid tests for diagnosing Group A streptococcal pharyngitis in 147 emergency department patients with a complaint of sore throat were evaluated using positive throat cultures as the marker for disease.
(18) A few minutes after sucking a lozenge for a sore throat a 68-year-old man developed an anaphylactic shock.
(19) The general election result was, of course, crushing for Labour MPs south of the border as well as north, and the wounds are still very open and very sore.
(20) We discuss some epidemiological aspects and diagnostic difficulties resulting from a changing clinical pattern of the disease, and emphasize the need for streptococcal sore throat treatment and continuous secondary prophylaxis to prevent recurrences.