NOUN | state | aphonia, voicelessness | a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice |
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Meaning | A disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice. | |
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Synonym | voicelessness | |
Broader | speech disorder, speech defect, defect of speech | A disorder of oral speech |
Spanish | afonía | |
Catalan | afonia | |
Adjectives | aphonic | being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech |
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