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noun Pathology.
- loss of voice, especially due to an organic or functional disturbance of the vocal organs.
noun
- loss of the voice caused by damage to the vocal tract
“want of voice, loss of voice, having no sound,” 1719, from Modern Latin aphonia, from Greek aphonia “speechlessness,” noun of quality from aphonos “voiceless,” from a-, privative prefix (see a- (3)), + phone “voice” (see fame (n.)). Less-common anglicized form aphony is attested from 1827.
n.
- Loss of the voice resulting from disease, injury to the vocal cords, or psychological causes, such as hysteria.