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)
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
Slight forms of structural aphonia are of a catarrhal nature, resulting from more or less congestion and tumefaction of the mucous and submucous tissues of the larynx and adjoining parts.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
The most prominent symptoms are hoarseness, aphonia, and dyspnœa, which in children may be paroxysmal.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
The same may be said of feigned insanity, aphonia, deaf-mutism, and loss of memory.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by Robertson, W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison )