aphonia

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Laryngeal Foreign Body.—One or more of the following laryngeal symptoms may be present: Hoarseness, croupy cough, aphonia, odynphagia, hemoptysis, wheezing, dyspnea, cyanosis, apnea, subjective sensation of foreign body.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier

Ball records a curious case of what he calls hysteric aphonia.

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

Page 159 In children, hysterical pain, hysterical contractures or palsies, mutism, and aphonia are the most usual symptoms.

From The Nervous Child by Cameron, Hector Charles

The treatment of functional aphonia should be general and local; tonics such as strychnin, iron, and arsenic should be administered; the intra-laryngeal application of electricity usually effects a sudden cure.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

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