phonation
/fə(ʊ)ˈneɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun] Phonetics
The production or utterance of speech sounds: patients may exhibit difficulty with phonation...
- The tongue is essential for speech / phonation, tasting, chewing, swallowing, suckling, and licking, but to do all of this it evolved to lie partially in the pharynx, where in humans it is at best a nuisance for breathing.
- Mastication, swallowing, phonation, hearing, vision, and facial expression will be animated and seen in three dimensions.
- The primary function of this system is the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide; secondary functions are phonation and olfaction.
Derivatives
phonate
/ verb ...- The laryngoscope is used again to confirm vocal cord medialization while the patient phonates.
- They can crudely chew and phonate (mediated by other cranial nerves) but can't smile or frown or otherwise express emotion.
- He or she then inserts the measuring device, and the patient is asked to phonate while the medialization is viewed through the laryngoscope.
phonatory
/ adjective ...- The specific implant size easily can be identified during the procedure by visualizing the larynx with a fiber-optic laryngoscope and listening to the patient's phonatory function.
- Chapter One, ‘Physiology of Phonation’ by Robert Fawcus, is about the co-ordination between phonatory and articulatory behaviors.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek phōnē 'sound, voice' + -ation.