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  2. Voiceless uvular implosive - Wikipedia

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    Its place of articulation is uvular, which means it is articulated with the back of the tongue (the dorsum) at the uvula. Its phonation is voiceless, which means it is produced without vibrations of the vocal cords. It is an oral consonant, which means air is allowed to escape through the mouth only.

  3. Voiceless uvular trill - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless uvular trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is less common than its voiced counterpart . The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʀ̥ , a small capital version of the Latin letter r with a ring diacritic indicating voicelessness .

  4. Uvular consonant - Wikipedia

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    In many of these it has a uvular fricative (either voiced [ʁ] or voiceless [χ]) as an allophone when it follows one of the voiceless stops /p/, /t/, or /k/ at the end of a word, as in the French example maître [mɛtχ], or even a uvular approximant [ʁ̞]. As with most trills, uvular trills are often reduced to a single contact, especially ...

  5. Voiceless uvular plosive - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is pronounced like a voiceless velar plosive [k] , except that the tongue makes contact not on the soft palate but on the uvula .

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

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    Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.

  7. Voiced uvular trill - Wikipedia

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    The voiced uvular trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ʀ , a small capital version of the Latin letter r .

  8. 10 Reasons You Should Never Ignore a Swollen Uvula, According ...

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    Voice changes. Snoring. ... “This is known as uvular angioedema,” says Dr. Morrison. Pinpointing the source of the allergy and steering clear of it is obviously the best course of action (if ...

  9. Voiceless uvular fricative - Wikipedia

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    It may thus be appropriate to call those variants voiceless (post)velar-uvular fricative trill as the trill component is always uvular (velar trills are not physically possible). The corresponding IPA symbol is ʀ̝̊˖ (a devoiced, raised and advanced uvular trill, where the "advanced" diacritic applies only to the fricative portion of the sound).