oxyphonia
oxyphonia noun: shrillness or high pitch of the voice.
Noun
oxyphonia (uncountable)
- shrillness or high pitch of the voice
- In the latter case, it is either too strong or too weak, too deep (vox clangosa, if it is at the same time too strong, and raucitas gravis, if it is at the same time too weak), or too high (oxyphonia, which again is divided into vox cucuriens or rudens, which is at the same time too strong, and...1833, Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Encyclopædia Americana
- Symptoms related to pressure of the thyroid on neighboring structures in the neck include dysphagia, oxyphonia, dyspnea, and a choking sensation.1984, Seymour I. Schwartz, Principles of surgery - Volume 2, page 1550
Examples of oxyphonia in a sentence
- You've produced this redolent oxyphonia in me, this mysterious paroxysm of wicked albuminuria.2006, Will Alexander, Sunrise in Armageddon, →ISBN, page 90:
- Farewell the unspeakable pleasures of ouretic and outlandish, outsoar and oxfordian; forgive my oxyphonia.2009, Ellis Sharp, Macdonald Daly, Dead Iraqis: Selected Short Stories of Ellis Sharp, page 166:
Origin of oxyphonia
From oxy- + -phonia.
Questions about oxyphonia
- What does oxyphonia mean?
- Oxyphonia means shrillness or high pitch of the voice.
- How do you use oxyphonia in a sentence?
- You've produced this redolent oxyphonia in me, this mysterious paroxysm of wicked albuminuria.
- What part of speech is oxyphonia?
- Oxyphonia is a noun.
Words near oxyphonia in the dictionary
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