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dysphonia

noun/dɪsˈfəʊnɪə/

C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Any impairment in the production of vocal sound, perceived as hoarseness or altered voice quality.

Persistent dysphonia lasting more than three weeks mandates laryngoscopy to exclude malignancy.

Similar: hoarseness

Topic: ENT in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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