Voice disorders are medical conditions affecting the production of
speechIn linguistics , manner of articulation describes how the tongue, lips, jaw, and other speech organs are involved in making a sound make contact. Often the concept is only used for the production of consonants...
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Voice disorders are medical conditions affecting the production of
speechIn linguistics , manner of articulation describes how the tongue, lips, jaw, and other speech organs are involved in making a sound make contact. Often the concept is only used for the production of consonants...
. These include:
- Chorditis
Chorditis is the inflammation of vocal cords usually as a result of voice abuse but sometimes because of cancer....
- Vocal fold nodule
A vocal cord nodule is a mass of tissue that grows on the vocal folds . Typically this mass will appear on the junction of the anterior and middle two-thirds of the vocal fold, where contact is most forceful....
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- Vocal fold cyst
Vocal fold cysts are collections of fluid in sac-like formations on the vocal folds.Cysts can deteriorate the quality of human speech production, causing diplophonia, a condition where the vocal cords produce multiple tones at the same time, or dysphonia, an impaired quality of voice typically...
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- Vocal cord paresis
Vocal cord paresis is weakness of one or both vocal folds that can greatly impact daily life, employment, job choice, social interactions and leisure time pursuits...
- Reinke's Edema
Reinke's edema, also known as polypoid degeneration, is the swelling of the vocal folds due to fluid collection .-Presentation:Reinke's edema causes the vocal folds to bilaterally swell giving them an uneven, sac-like appearance...
- Spasmodic dysphonia
Spasmodic dysphonia is a voice disorder characterized by involuntary movements of one or more muscles of the larynx during speech.- Types of spasmodic dysphonia :...
- Foreign accent syndrome
Foreign accent syndrome is a rare medical condition involving speech production that usually occurs as a side effect of severe brain injury, such as a stroke or a head injury, though two cases have been reported of individuals as a development problem. Between 1941 and 2009, there have been sixty...
- Bogart-Bacall Syndrome
Bogart-Bacall Syndrome is a vocal misuse disorder.People who speak or sing out of their normal range can experience vocal fatigue, which is one cause of dysphonia. The people most commonly afflicted are those who speak in a low-pitched voice, particularly if they have poor breath and vocal control...
- Laryngeal papillomatosis
Laryngeal papillomatosis, also known as recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, is a rare medical condition, caused by an HPV infection of the throat. It causes assorted tumors, papillomas, to develop over a period of time...
- Puberphonia
The persistence of adolescent voice even after puberty in the absence of organic cause is known as Puberphonia. It is also called "Mutational falsetto" and "Voice break".-Introduction:...
See also
- Speech disorder
Speech disorders or speech impediments, as they are also called, are a type of communication disorders where 'normal' speech is disrupted. This can mean stuttering, lisps, etc. Someone who is totally unable to speak due to a speech disorder is considered mute.-Classification:Classifying speech into...
- Voice changes during puberty
- Laryngectomy
Laryngectomy is the removal of the larynx and separation of the airway from the mouth, nose, and esophagus. The laryngectomee breathes through an opening in the neck, a stoma. It is done in cases of laryngeal cancer...
- Aphasia
Aphasia is an acquired condition in which there is an impairment of any language modality. This may include difficulty in producing or comprehending spoken or written language....
- Vocology
Vocology is the science of enabling or endowing the human voice with greater ability or fitness.. Its concerns include the nature of speech and language pathology, the defects of the vocal tract , the remediation of speech therapy and the voice training and voice pedagogy of song and speech for...
- Human voice
The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal folds for talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, etc. Human voice is specifically that part of human sound production in which the vocal folds are the primary sound source...
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