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  2. What Causes Aphonia (Loss of Voice)? - AOL

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    Allergies, respiratory infections, and talking too loudly can all cause aphonia to occur. Aphonia is the medical term for losing your voice. Allergies, respiratory infections, and talking too ...

  3. Aphonia - Wikipedia

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    When a person prepares to speak, the vocal folds come together over the trachea and vibrate due to the airflow from the lungs. This mechanism produces the sound of the voice. If the vocal folds cannot meet together to vibrate, sound will not be produced. Aphonia can also be caused by and is often accompanied by fear. [4]

  4. Glossary of communication disorders - Wikipedia

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    Hoarse voice or the complete loss of the voice because of irritation to the vocal folds (vocal cords). Laryngoplasty Laryngeal framework surgery of a paralysed vocal cord to help strengthen the voice - a window in the thyroid cartilage is created and an implant is inserted into the para-glottic space via an open approach.

  5. Spasmodic dysphonia - Wikipedia

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    Spasmodic dysphonia, also known as laryngeal dystonia, is a disorder in which the muscles that generate a person's voice go into periods of spasm. [1] [2] This results in breaks or interruptions in the voice, often every few sentences, which can make a person difficult to understand. [1]

  6. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    of or relating to bone marrow or the spinal cord: Greek μυελός (muelós), marrow, bone-marrow myelin sheath, myeloblast: myl(o)-of or relating to molar teeth or the lower jaw Greek μῠ́λη (múlē, mill, grind, molars mylohyoid nerve: myri-ten thousand Greek μῡρῐ́ος (mūríos), innumerable, countless, infinite myriad: myring ...

  7. List of voice disorders - Wikipedia

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    Voice disorders [1] are medical conditions involving abnormal pitch, loudness or quality of the sound produced by the larynx and thereby affecting speech production. These include: These include: Vocal fold nodules

  8. Muteness - Wikipedia

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    Another cause may be a medical condition impacting the physical structures involved in speech, for example, loss of voice due to the injury, paralysis, or illness of the larynx. [7] Anarthria is a severe form of dysarthria , in which the coordination of movements of the mouth and tongue or the conscious coordination of the lungs are damaged.

  9. RFK Jr. speaks candidly about his gravelly voice: 'If I could ...

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    Kennedy was asked whether the loss of his full voice felt particularly frustrating, given his family’s legacy of ringing oratory. He replied, his voice still raspy, “Like I said, it’s ironic.”