dysphonia.

An impairment in voice quality, pitch, loudness, or effort during phonation.

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Words that belong together

• persistent dysphonia
• dysphonia in a speaker

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Persistent dysphonia changed the voice she had once recognized instantly.

He described dysphonia without claiming that a hoarse sound revealed its cause.

Usage notes

Primary category: horror. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.