HOARSENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hoarseness mean? 

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

1. a throaty harshness

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOARSENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A throaty harshness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

gruffness; hoarseness; huskiness

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

harshness; roughness (the quality of being harsh or rough or grating to the senses)

Derivation:

hoarse (deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion)

 Context examples 

Signs and symptoms include sore throat, cough, swallowing difficulties, and hoarseness.

(Acute Laryngitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include hoarseness, airway obstruction, weight loss, dysphagia, and throat pain.

(Laryngeal Verrucous Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Symptoms include: • A lump or sore that does not heal • A sore throat that does not go away • Trouble swallowing • A change or hoarseness in the voice

(Head and Neck Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Clinical signs and symptoms include chest pain, cough, hoarseness, and dysphagia.

(Mediastinal Paraganglioma, NCI Thesaurus)

It results in hoarseness and other voice changes.

(Chronic Laryngitis, NCI Thesaurus)

A condition characterized by resonant barking cough, hoarseness and persistant stridor and caused by allergy, foreign body, infection, or neoplasm.

(Croup, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Trouble with the voice when trying to talk, including hoarseness and change in pitch or quality or voice.

(Dysphonia, NCI Dictionary)

A rare, autosomal recessive metabolic disorder characterized by hoarseness of voice, eyelid beading, skin lesions, and seizures.

(Lipoid Proteinosis of Urbach and Wiethe, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients may present with hoarseness and dysphagia.

(Laryngeal Paraganglioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Hoarseness, sore throat, and dysphagia are the presenting symptoms.

(Laryngeal Adenosquamous Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)