aphonia

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Aphonia due to cicatricial webs of the larynx may be cured by plastic operations that reform the cords, with a clean, sharp anterior commissure, which is a necessity for clear phonation.

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

Aphonia is often complete, deglutition impossible, respiration difficult.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The new methods of hypnotism and suggestion interested him greatly, and in 1889 he published a monograph on "Functional Aphonia and its Treatment by Hypnotism and Suggestion."

From The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays by Björkman, Edwin

Aphonia, or loss of voice, sudden in origin, and sometimes transient, occurs more often in women, and is usually functional or hysterical in nature.

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