APHONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aphonia mean? 

• APHONIA (noun)
  The noun APHONIA has 1 sense:

1. a disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice

  Familiarity information: APHONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APHONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of voice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

aphonia; voicelessness

Hypernyms ("aphonia" is a kind of...):

defect of speech; speech defect; speech disorder (a disorder of oral speech)

Derivation:

aphonic (being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech)