Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A condition in which, owing to partial paralysis of the larynx, two sounds of different pitch are produced simultaneously.
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Examples
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Morgan in the same journal mentions the case of a boy of nineteen, who seemed to be affected with laryngeal catarrh, and who exhibited distinct diphthongia.
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Morgan in the same journal mentions the case of a boy of nineteen, who seemed to be affected with laryngeal catarrh, and who exhibited distinct diphthongia.
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