Spasmodic dysphonia: A voice disorder caused by involuntary movements of one or more muscles of the larynx or voice box.
Spasmodic Dysphonia
What is spasmodic dysphonia?
Spasmodic dysphonia, also called laryngeal dystonia, is a voice disorder.
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Mixed spasmodic dysphonia, a combination of the above two types, is very rare.
How is spasmodic dysphonia diagnosed?
Diagnosis of spasmodic dysphonia is sometimes difficult because individuals with spasmodic dysphonia often have symptoms similar to other voice disorders.
Spasmodic dysphonia involves difficulty speaking because of repetitive or continuous spasms (dystonia) of the muscles that control the vocal cords.
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1. a breathy form of spasmodic dysphonia caused by long and excessive vocal fold opening for voiceless phonemes extending into vowels.
Spasmodic Dysphonia
(SD; Adductor Laryngeal Breathing Dystonia (ABLD); Adductor Spasmodic Dysphonia; Abductor Spasmodic Dysphonia; Dysphonia, Episodic Laryngeal Dyskinesia; Laryngeal Dystonia; Spastic Dysphonia)
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Spasmodic dysphonia or laryngeal dystonia
This type of dystonia affects the muscles controlling the vocal cords. The vocal cords are held together under tension during normal speech, held in this way they vibrate to produce sound.
Spasmodic dysphonia
Spasmodic dysphonia (difficulty in voice production) is slightly more common in women than in men and occurs in middle age. The muscles affected are those controlling the vocal cords.
spasmodic dysphonia - momentary disruption of voice caused by involuntary movements of one or more muscles of the larynx or voice box.
Spasmodic dysphonia (SD)
Spasmodic dysphonia (SD) is a rare form of dystonia which affects the laryngeal muscles (vocal cords) and is also known as laryngeal dystonia.
Spasmodic dysphonia (SD): SD is a type of dystonia. SD involves the muscles of the voice box (larynx) and the surrounding muscles. Speech is affected. . In people with SD, speech is blocked or strained by intermittent spasms of the voice box.
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Abductor spasmodic dysphonia
A disorder in which sudden muscle spasms cause the vocal folds (or vocal cords) to stay open. See spasmodic dysphonia.
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In fact, spasmodic dysphonia, characterized by strainedstrangled or abnormally breathy vocal quality and episodes of periodic arrests of voice, is a form of hyperkinetic dysarthria in that dystonia involves the vocal cords.
Spasmodic dysphonia involves the muscles of the throat that control speech. Also called spastic dysphonia or laryngeal dystonia, it causes strained and difficult speaking or breathy and effortful speech.
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Laryngeal disorders include various benign and malignant tumors, contact ulcers, granulomas, laryngitis, laryngoceles, spasmodic dysphonia, vocal cord paralysis, and vocal cord polyps and nodules.
DYSPHONIA is another type of speech impairment. For information, see the article on spasmodic dysphonia.
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Segmental cranial dystonia (Meige syndrome)—affecting the jaw, tongue and eyes
Oromandibular dystonia—affecting the jaw
Spasmodic dysphonia—affecting the vocal cords
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