aphonia
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Page 159 In children, hysterical pain, hysterical contractures or palsies, mutism, and aphonia are the most usual symptoms.
From The Nervous Child by Hector Charles Cameron
At first this seemed unaccountable, but later it was found that the old woman for whom the patient had been caring had a "stroke" with loss of the power to speak, though no aphonia.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
If aphonia and difficulty of both inspiration and expiration be present at the same time, there is certainly membranous occlusion.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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
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 William Healy
