APHONIA
\afˈə͡ʊni͡ə], \afˈəʊniə], \a_f_ˈəʊ_n_iə]\
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By Princeton University
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Complete loss of phonation due to organic disease of the larynx or to nonorganic (i.e., psychogenic) causes.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William R. Warner
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Privation of voice, or of the sounds that ought to be produced in the glottis. When aphonia forms part of catarrh or of 'cold,' it is commonly but of little consequence; but when produced by causes acting on the nervous system, as by some powerful emotion, or without any appreciable lesion of the vocal apparatus, (Laryngo-paralysis,) it frequently resists all remedies.
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Catalepsy-a. Surdorum, Mutitas Surdorum.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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