aphonia

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A striking form of inability to co-ordinate muscles so as to enable them to perform their ordinary function is aphonia, or mutism, sometimes spoken of as hysterical mutism.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Each time on her disappearance he had an attack of aphonia, inability to utter a sound of any kind.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Disturbance of the sight shortly intervened, associated with aphonia.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Two of his sisters were of a nervous and hysterical type and said to have attacks of aphonia.

From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William

Hence, the hesitation in speech arises and as the repressed thoughts gradually are forced into the unconscious, there finally develops the defective speech automatism, either stammering or a spastic aphonia.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various