(n.) Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.
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.
Voice
Definition:
(n.) Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice.
(n.) Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper.
(n.) The tone or sound emitted by anything.
(n.) The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice.
(n.) Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion.
(n.) Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote.
(n.) Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language.
(n.) One who speaks; a speaker.
(n.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
(v. t.) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation.
(v. t.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
(v. t.) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ.
(v. t.) To vote; to elect; to appoint.
(v. i.) To clamor; to cry out.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
(2) But Lee is mostly just extremely fed up at the exclusion of sex workers’ voices from much of the conversation.
(3) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(4) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
(5) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
(6) Activists in the country are pushing to get their voices heard ahead of Sunday's race.
(7) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
(8) Obviously it’s good to have all voices on the field.
(9) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(10) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(11) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
(12) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
(13) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
(14) Giving voice to that sentiment the mass-selling daily newspaper Ta Nea dedicated its front-page editorial to what it hoped would soon be the group's demise, describing Alexopoulos' desertion as a "positive development".
(15) Another source inside the centre, quoted earlier on the Detained Voices blog, said detainees had banged on their doors throughout the lockdown.
(16) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.
(17) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(18) I said, ''It's the fake femininity I can't stand, and the counterfeit voice.
(19) he asked in a low voice, referring to the Sunni insurgents sweeping across northern Iraq .
(20) People praying, voicing their views and heart, were met with disdain and a level of force exceeding what was needed.