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phonation

[foh-ney-shuh n]
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noun Phonetics.
  1. rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
  2. (not in technical use) voice; vocalization.Compare voice(defs 15, 16).
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Origin of phonation

First recorded in 1835–45; phon- + -ation
Related formspho·na·to·ry [foh-nuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] /ˈfoʊ nəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/, adjective
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Related Words

voicingarticulationelocutionvocalizationpronunciationutterancefluencyphraseologyphonation

Examples from the Web for phonation

Historical Examples

  • He has also a tic of phonation dating back to his fifteenth year.

    Tics and Their Treatment

    Henry Meigne

  • Tics of phonation are often superadded to the gesticulations of variable chorea.

  • Phonation and respiration are implicated as well as articulation.

  • But the vocal cords are wedded in phonation, and by their attrition the node is formed.

    The Voice

    Frank E. Miller

  • The whole larynx, so far as phonation is concerned, may be said to exist for the true vocal bands.

phonation in Medicine

phonation

(fō-nā′shən)
n.
  1. The utterance of sounds through the use of the vocal cords; vocalization.
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Related formspho′na•to′ry (fō′nə-tôr′ē) adj.
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