phon-, phono-, -phone, -phonia, -phonic, -phonetic, -phonous, -phonically, -phonetically, -phony +
(Greek: sound, voice, speech, tone)
This phono-, phon- should not be confused with another phono-, phon- that means "slaughter, murder, homicide". In Greek, a distinction is made between the phonos (PHOH nohs), "murder", which is spelled with the Greek letter omicron in the last syllable; and the Greek phonos (phoh NOHS), "voice", which is spelled with the letter omega in the last syllable. Both omicron and omega became the letter "o" in English.
orthophony
1. The art of correct speaking or enunciation.
2. The accurate and correct production of the various sound components during speech.
2. The accurate and correct production of the various sound components during speech.
ossiphone
An early type of hearing aid that used bones for conduction of sounds.
osteophone, osteophony
An instrument for the transmission of sound-waves through the teeth and the cranial bones to the auditory nerve, for the use of the deaf.
otaphone
An obsolete term for a hearing aid.
otophone
An ear-trumpet, an apparatus for providing sound to the deaf.
oxyphonia, oxyphony
Excessive acuteness or shrillness of the voice; the high pitch of the voice.
pantelephone
A highly sensitive microphone capable of reproducing minute sound-vibrations at great distances;
paraphonia
1. Any disorder of the voice, especially a change in its tone.
2. Alteration of the voice for physiological or pathological reasons.
2. Alteration of the voice for physiological or pathological reasons.
pectorophony
Voice sounds of increased resonance heard through the chest wall; also, pectoriloquy.
phon
The unit of loudness level on a scale beginning at zero for the faintest audible sound and corresponding to the decibel scale of sound intensity with the number of phons of a given sound being equal to the decibels of a pure 1000-cycle tone judged by the listener to be equally loud.
phonacoscope
An instrument for increasing the intensity of the percussion note or of the voice sounds, the examiner's ear or the stethoscope being placed on the opposite side of the chest.
phonacoscopy
Examination of the chest with a phonacoscope.
phonal
1. Of, relating to, or producing speech sounds.
2. Designating those consonant-like and vowel-like segmental sounds articulated by an infant in the developmental stage prior to the utterance of identifiable words, after which they may be referred to as phonemes.
2. Designating those consonant-like and vowel-like segmental sounds articulated by an infant in the developmental stage prior to the utterance of identifiable words, after which they may be referred to as phonemes.
phonarteriogram
A technique for recording sound created in arteries; a graphic recording of arterial sounds.
phonarteriography, phonarteriograph
The recording of arterial sounds.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.":
cit-;
clam-;
dic-;
fa-;
-farious;
glosso-;
glotto-;
lalo-;
linguo-;
locu-;
logo-;
loqu-;
mythico-;
-ology;
ora-;
-phasia;
-phemia;
phras-;
Quotes: Language,Part 1;
Quotes: Language, Part 2;
Quotes: Language, Part 3;
serm-;
tongue;
voc-.
