dysarthria

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Difficulty in articulating words due to a disturbance in the form or function of the structures that modulate voice into speech; one of the first indicative symptoms of myasthenia gravis, brought about by an autoimmune response to acetylcholine receptors.

Word forms

dysarthria dysarthrias

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, from German Dysarthrie. By surface analysis, dys- + -arthria.

Related words

Derived words

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.