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A hoarse voice, also known as dysphonia or hoarseness, [1] is when the voice involuntarily sounds breathy, raspy, or strained, or is softer in volume or lower in pitch. [2][3] [clarification needed] A hoarse voice can be associated with a feeling of unease or scratchiness in the throat. [2] Hoarseness is often a symptom of problems in the vocal ...
Speech problems occur with ALS when nerve cells that deliver messages from the brain to the muscles that move the lips, tongue, soft palate, jaw and vocal cords are damaged, causing the muscles ...
Frequency. 2 per 100,000 [1] 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]
Muscle tension dysphonia. Muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) was originally coined in 1983 by Morrison [2] and describes a dysphonia caused by increased muscle tension of the muscles surrounding the voice box: the laryngeal and paralaryngeal muscles. [3] MTD is a unifying diagnosis for a previously poorly categorized disease process.
Laryngitis is inflammation of the larynx (voice box). [1] Symptoms often include a hoarse voice and may include fever, cough, pain in the front of the neck, and trouble swallowing. [1][2] Typically, these last under 2 weeks. [1]
Just as 2022 began, Jordan Turko noticed he had a hoarse voice and pain in his back. But as a “super healthy” 30-year-old frequent flier and hot yoga fan who exercised six days a week, he wasn ...
Hoarse voice; From an adjective: This is a redirect from an adjective, which is a word or phrase that describes a noun, to a related word or topic.
Reinke's edema is the swelling of the vocal cords due to fluid (Edema) collected within the Reinke's space. [2] First identified by the German anatomist Friedrich B. Reinke in 1895, the Reinke's space is a gelatinous layer of the vocal cord located underneath the outer cells of the vocal cord. [3][4] When a person speaks, the Reinke's space ...