oxyphonia

English

Noun

oxyphonia (uncountable)

1. (medicine) shrillness or high pitch of the voice
   • 1833, Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Encyclopædia Americana:

     In the latter case, it is either too strong or too weak, too deep (vox clangosa, if it is at the same time too strong, and raucitas gravis, if it is at the same time too weak), or too high (oxyphonia, which again is divided into vox cuicuriens or rudens, which is at the same time too strong, and raucitas acuta, at the same time too weak).

   • 1984, Seymour I. Schwartz, Principles of surgery - Volume 2, page 1550:

     Symptoms related to pressure of the thyroid on neighboring structures in the neck include dysphagia, oxyphonia, dyspnea, and a choking sensation.

   • 2006, Will Alexander, Sunrise in Armageddon, →ISBN, page 90:

     You've produced this redolent oxyphonia in me, this mysterious paroxysm of wicked albuminuria.

   • 2009, Ellis Sharp, Macdonald Daly, Dead Iraqis: Selected Short Stories of Ellis Sharp, page 166:

     Farewell the unspeakable pleasures of ouretic and outlandish, outsoar and oxfordian; forgive my oxyphonia.