mogi-, -mogia
(Greek: with difficulty, difficult; with toil and pain)
hypnomogia
Difficulty in going to sleep; insomnia.
mogiarthria
Speech defect due to muscular incoordination.
mogigraphy, mogigraphia, mogigraphic
1. Physical difficulty in writing which may be a result of clumsiness of the fingers.
2. Difficult or cramped writing; writer’s cramp.
"Tennis players have their elbows, athletes have their feet, so what do writers get? They get their cramps. Mogigraphia is a fancy name for a writer's cramp.
Advanced writers go for a block. For the ultimate, we recommend carpal tunnel syndrome. A synonym of mogigraphia is graphospasm."
—Anu Garg, Wordsmith, wsmith@wordsmith.org
mogilalia, mogilalism
1. Any of various disorders of articulation, including stuttering or stammering. Also known as, molilalia.
2. Difficulty speaking during psychotherapy, due to resistance.
3. Any disturbance of speech; especially, the utterance of a vocal sound other than the one desired.
mogiphonia
1. Difficulty in the production of voiced laryngeal sounds while talking.
2. Laryngeal spasm occurring in public speakers as a result of the overuse of one's voice.
3. Any impairment of voice; a difficulty in speaking.
mogitocia, mogitokia
An older term for the abnormally slow progress in labor during birth because of ineffective uterine contractions. See dystocia for more details.
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