Definitions for phonation

phonation pho·na·tion

Spelling: [foh-ney-shuh n]
IPA: /foʊˈneɪ ʃən/

Phonation is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 257 anagrams from letters in phonation (ahinnoopt).

Definitions for phonation

noun

  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).

Origin of phonation

First recorded in 1835-45; phon- + -ation

Examples for phonation

In reality, however, the paralysis does not lie in the cords themselves, but in the leading muscles that control in phonation.

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

Of course, in phonation the vocal bands are never so much separated as shown in the illustrations.

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

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

The spiritus asper is caused by a too slow contraction of the vocal cords and their too gradual approach for phonation.

phonation and respiration are implicated as well as articulation.

The crico-thyroid may be considered the most important muscle of phonation, because it is so much used and so effective.

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

We would again urge that in every instance of phonation in either speaker or singer, the breath be taken through the open mouth.

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