aphonia

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

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

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

That is to say, she was unable to move the right arm, the right leg, the right side of the face, and she lost the power of speech entirely; there was complete aphonia.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

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

If the recurrent laryngeal nerves are involved, unilateral or bilateral paralysis of the larynx may complicate the symptoms by cough, dyspnea, aphonia, and possibly septic pneumonia.

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