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presbyphonia

presbyphonia noun: the changes to a person's voice due to ageing.

Noun

presbyphonia (uncountable)

  1. The changes to a person's voice due to ageing
    • Presbyphonia is the sequence of physiological events related to the process of senility of the vocal folds.2017 March, Chiara Mezzedimi et al., “Objective Evaluation of Presbyphonia: Spectroacoustic Study on 142 Patients with Praat”, in Journal of Voice, volume 31, number 2, →DOI

Origin of presbyphonia

From presby- + -phonia.

Questions about presbyphonia

What does presbyphonia mean?
Presbyphonia means the changes to a person's voice due to ageing.
What part of speech is presbyphonia?
Presbyphonia is a noun.

Words near presbyphonia in the dictionary

  1. presbyopically
  2. presbyopics
  3. presbyopy
  4. presbyornithid
  5. presbyornithids
  6. presbyphonia
  7. presbypropria
  8. presbyte
  9. presbyter
  10. presbytera
  11. presbyterae

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