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laryngitis

UK/læɹɪnˈd͡ʒaɪtɪs/US/lɛɹɪnˈd͡ʒaɪtɪs/
nounC2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,911 of 15,258neutral

Laryngitis is an inflammation of the throat that takes the voice away. A bout of laryngitis, lose the voice to laryngitis, treat the laryngitis.

The advice is rest rather than whispering, since whispering strains the cords more than speaking softly does. Most cases are viral and clear in a week, and singers and teachers get it most because of how much they use the voice.

Definitions of laryngitis

  1. 1nounlaryngitisAn inflammation of the throat that takes the voice away.C2

    “The singer had to cancel the concert because laryngitis had left her unable to speak.”

laryngitis is a condition.

Where it comes from

From larynx plus -itis, the ending meaning inflammation.

  1. New Latin

    laryngitis

  2. English, today

    laryngitis

Attested since 1822 New Latin laryngitis, from larynx + itis. by surface analysis, laryng- + -itis.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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laryngitis in the wild

  • Loeb also sang in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, moved on to Broadway and the lead in musical comedies but laryngitis robbed him of his ability to sing.

    Anton Loeb

  • The symptoms are unpleasant and usually temporary, but occasionally signifies a more serious health issue, such as laryngitis.

    Throat irritation

  • Charney, a voice-over applicant with laryngitis at WJM-TV, in the season four episode, "The Lou and Edie Story" on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

    Darrell Zwerling

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.