[ey-fon-ik, ey-foh-nik] 
| 1. | mouthed but not spoken; noiseless; silent. |
| 2. | Phonetics.
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| 3. | Pathology. affected with aphonia. |
| 4. | Pathology. a person who is affected with aphonia. |
| a·pho·ni·a (ā-fō'nē-ə) n. Loss of the voice resulting from disease, injury to the vocal cords, or various psychological causes, such as hysteria. [New Latin aphōnia, from Greek aphōniā, speechlessness, from aphōnos, voiceless : a-, without; see a-1 + phōnē, voice; see bhā-2 in Indo-European roots.] a·phon'ic (ā-fŏn'ĭk, ā-fō'nĭk) adj. |
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