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Laryngitis

noun

Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx; characterized by hoarseness or loss of voice and coughing.

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spasmodic laryngitis

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"Laryngitis" Quotes from Famous Books

... the balcony because Faust was singing through laryngitis and a cloud of fog in his throat. A critic who wrote in terms of elliptical rhythms and tonal arabesques tiptoed out for a smoke. One of those sympathetic fits of coughing swept the house. But Lilly sat hunched in her habitual beatific ...

— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... a few pages more in his exhaustive volume. He had attended all the lectures but three throughout the year, taking them down in short-hand. Laryngitis had kept him from those three, to which however, he had sent a stenographic friend so that the chain was unbroken. He now took up the next philosopher on the list; but his smooth discourse was, after a short while, rudely shaken. ...

— Philosophy 4 - A Story of Harvard University • Owen Wister

... leaf plays a very important part in the therapeutics of the infant of the Philippines: in its indigestions, colics and diarrhoeas the heated leaves are applied to the abdomen previously anointed with hot cocoanut oil. In bronchitis and laryngitis the heated leaves are applied over the chest or neck after rubbing the parts with oil. It undoubtedly produces good effects and the physicians of India recommend it in the same cases and in the same form as in the Philippines. ...

— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines • T. H. Pardo de Tavera

Words linked to "Laryngitis" : rubor, spasmodic laryngitis, inflammation, redness