(medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease; "there were no signs of asphyxiation"
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Alalia
paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak
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(medicine) something that can be used as a substitute (especially any medicine that may be taken in place of another)
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.(medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (‘phr…
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.impaired articulatory ability resulting from defects in the peripheral motor nerves or in the speech musculature
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (‘phr…
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves
Used in the same subject area: Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, General medicine.acute spasmodic pain along the course of one or more nerves
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Ladle-shaped; -- applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartil…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paralysis, vocal, cords, resulting, inability.Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paralysis, vocal, cords, resulting, inability.congenital deafness that results in inability to speak
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paralysis, vocal, cords, resulting, inability.congenital deafness that results in inability to speak
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paralysis, vocal, cords, resulting, inability.The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paralysis, vocal, cords, resulting, inability.paralysis of the arm resulting from injury to the brachial plexus (usually during childbirth)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paralysis, vocal, cords, resulting, inability.paralysis of the arm resulting from injury to the brachial plexus (usually during childbirth)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paralysis, vocal, cords, resulting, inability.either of the upper two vocal cords that are not involved in vocalization
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paralysis, vocal, cords, resulting, inability.either of the upper two vocal cords that are not involved in vocalization
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paralysis, vocal, cords, resulting, inability.Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paralysis, vocal, cords, resulting, inability.Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paralysis, vocal, cords, resulting, inability.either of the two lower vocal folds that come together to form the glottis; produce a vocal tone when they are approximated and air fr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: paralysis, vocal, cords, resulting, inability.
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