21Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere classified Symptoms, signs or clinical findings of speech, language or voice Symptoms or signs involving speech, language or voice MA82Voice disturbances
MA82.0
category
Aphonia
Definition Aphonia is the inability to produce voice. It is considered more severe than dysphonia. Like dysphonia, aphonia can be caused by voice strain or overuse, injury, by structural laryngeal anomalies or by dystonic neurological disorders.
Also indexed as
Aphonia Loss of voice absence of voice complete voice loss organic aphonia unable to phonate unable to produce voice unable to vocalize
Nearby in Voice disturbances
International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization (WHO) 2019/2021, https://icd.who.int/browse11. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO).
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