Voice disorders
[Titze, I.R. (1994). Principles of Voice Production, Prentice Hall, .] are medical conditions involving abnormal pitch, loudness or quality of the sound produced by the larynx and thereby affecting
speech
Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language. Spoken language combines vowel and consonant sounds to form units of meaning like words, which belong to a language's lexicon. There are many different intentional speech acts, suc ...
production. These include:
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Vocal fold nodules
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Vocal fold cysts
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Vocal cord paresis
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Reinke's edema
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Spasmodic dysphonia
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Foreign accent syndrome
Foreign accent syndrome is a rare medical condition in which patients develop speech patterns that are perceived as a foreign accent that is different from their native accent, without having acquired it in the perceived accent's place of origin ...
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Bogart–Bacall syndrome
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Laryngeal papillomatosis
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Laryngitis
See also
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Aphasia
Aphasia, also known as dysphasia, is an impairment in a person's ability to comprehend or formulate language because of dysfunction in specific brain regions. The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine, but aph ...
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Dysphonia
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Human voice
The human voice consists of sound Voice production, made by a human being using the vocal tract, including Speech, talking, singing, Laughter, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically ...
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Laryngectomy
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Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a neurodegenerative disease primarily of the central nervous system, affecting both motor system, motor and non-motor systems. Symptoms typically develop gradually and non-motor issues become ...
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Speech disorder
Speech disorders, impairments, or impediments, are a type of communication disorder in which normal speech is disrupted. This can mean fluency disorders like stuttering and cluttering. Someone who is unable to speak due to a speech disorder is c ...
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Vocology
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Voice changes during puberty
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