vocal+organs

  • 21aphonia — /afowniya/ Loss of the power of articulate speech in consequence of defective conditions of some of the vocal organs. It may be incomplete, in which case the patient can whisper. It is to be distinguished from congenital inability to speak, and… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 22aphonia — /afowniya/ Loss of the power of articulate speech in consequence of defective conditions of some of the vocal organs. It may be incomplete, in which case the patient can whisper. It is to be distinguished from congenital inability to speak, and… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 23voice — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old French vois, from Latin voc , vox; akin to Old High German giwahanen to mention, Greek epos word, speech, Sanskrit vāk voice Date: 14th century 1. a. sound produced by vertebrates by means of lungs,… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 24Sefer Yetzirah — (Hebrew, Book of Creation [ Yetzirah is more literally translated as Formation ; the word Briah is used for Creation ] , ספר יצירה) is the title of the earliest extant book on Jewish esotericism.The Sefer Yetzirah is devoted to speculations… …

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  • 25Oankali — The Oankali are a fictional race of intelligent extraterrestrials in Octavia Butler s Xenogenesis book trilogy (Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago, also published in an omnibus edition under the title Lilith s Brood). After the near extinction of… …

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  • 26Müller, Johannes Peter — born July 14, 1801, Koblenz, France died April 28, 1858, Berlin, Ger. German physiologist, comparative anatomist, and natural philosopher. He studied at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin and later taught at both. His discovery that each sense… …

    Universalium

  • 27organ — n. 1 a a usu. large musical instrument having pipes supplied with air from bellows, sounded by keys, and distributed into sets or stops which form partial organs, each with a separate keyboard (choir organ; pedal organ). b a smaller instrument… …

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  • 28visible speech — noun 1. a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century • Hypernyms: ↑phonetic alphabet, ↑sound alphabet 2. spectrogram of speech; speech displayed spectrographically • Hypernyms: ↑spectrogram, ↑spectrograph * * * noun …

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  • 29Articulation — Ar*tic u*la tion, n. [Cf. F. articulation, fr. L. articulatio.] 1. (Anat.) A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton. [1913 Webster] Note: Articulations may be immovable, when the bones are directly united (synarthrosis), or slightly… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 30Demoniacs — • Article concerned with the demonic possession in the New Testament Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Demoniacs     Demoniacs     † …

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