Meanings
- uncountablemedicineshrillness or high pitch of the voice
You've produced this redolent oxyphonia in me, this mysterious paroxysm of wicked albuminuria.
2006, Will Alexander, Sunrise in Armageddon, →ISBN, page 903 more examples
In the latter case, it is either too strong or too weak, too deep (vox clangosa, if it is at the same time too strong, and raucitas gravis, if it is at the same time too weak), or too high (oxyphonia, which again is divided into vox cucuriens or rudens, which is at the same time too strong, and raucitas acuta, at the same time too weak).
1833, Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Encyclopædia AmericanaSymptoms related to pressure of the thyroid on neighboring structures in the neck include dysphagia, oxyphonia, dyspnea, and a choking sensation.
1984, Seymour I. Schwartz, Principles of surgery - Volume 2, page 1550Farewell the unspeakable pleasures of ouretic and outlandish, outsoar and oxfordian; forgive my oxyphonia.
2009, Ellis Sharp, Macdonald Daly, Dead Iraqis: Selected Short Stories of Ellis Sharp, page 166
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