phon-, phono-, -phone, -phonia, -phonic, -phonetic, -phonous, -phonically, -phonetically, -phony +
(Greek: sound, voice, speech, tone)
This phono-, phon- should not be confused with another phono-, phon- that means "slaughter, murder, homicide". In Greek, a distinction is made between the phonos (PHOH nohs), "murder", which is spelled with the Greek letter omicron in the last syllable; and the Greek phonos (phoh NOHS), "voice", which is spelled with the letter omega in the last syllable. Both omicron and omega became the letter "o" in English.
phonics
1. The science of sound in general; acoustics.
2. The science of spoken sounds; phonetics.
3. The correlations between sound and symbol in an alphabetic writing system; used specificlly with reference to a method of teaching reading by associating letters or groups of letters with particular sounds in which the sound values of those individually written letters are identified and put together to form words.
phonic spasm
a spasm of the laryngeal muscles occurring when attempting to speak, usually a component of a conversion reaction, but also seen in professional singers and speakers due to faulty voice production.
phonikon
a metal wind instrument having its bell of spherical shape, invented in 1848.
phonism
1. An auditory sensation occurring when another sense is stimulated; also known as, auditory synesthesia.
2. A form of synesthesia in which there is a sensation of sound or hearing, as a result of the effect of sight, touch, taste, or smell, or even to the thought of some object, person, or general conception.
phonoangiography
Recording and analysis of the audible frequency-intensity components of the bruit of turbulent arterial blood flow through a stenotic lesion.
phonoausculation
1. Auscultation through a stethoscope of the sound heard when a vibrating tuning fork is placed against the chest.
2. Auscultation is the process of listening for sounds within the body, usually sounds of thoracic or abdominal viscera, to detect an abnormality or to check for fetal heart sounds.
phonocamptic
Having the property of reflecting sound, or producing an echo; relating to the reflexion of sound, cataphonic.
phonocamptics
That branch of physics dealing with the reflection of sounds.
phonocardiogram
A record of the heart sounds made by means of a phonocardiograph (an instrument, utilizing microphones, amplifiers, and filters, for graphically recording the heart sounds, which are displayed on an oscilloscope or analog tracing).
phonocardiograph
An instrument, utilizing microphones, amplifiers, and filters, for graphically recording heart sounds and murmurs, that are displayed on an oscilloscope or analog tracing.
phonocardiography
1. Recording of the heart sounds with a phonocardiograph.
2. The science of interpreting phonocardiograms.
phonocatheter
A cardiac catheter with a very small microphone located in its tip for recording heart sounds and murmurs within the heart and great vessels.
phonocatheterization
The use of a phonocatheter for the detection of sounds produced by the circulatory system. An intracardiac phonocatheterization, for example, consists of the passage of a phonocatheter into a chamber of the heart for the detection of sounds as an aid in the diagnosis of cardiac defects.
phonochorda (s), phonochordae (pl)
The vocal fold or folds.
phonocinefluorocardiography
The use of synchronous cardiac sounds and cinefluorography (motion-picture recording of fluroscopic images) to study heart form, motion, and function.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.":
cit-;
clam-;
dic-;
English Words: Origins and Histories;
fa-;
-farious;
glosso-;
glotto-;
lalo-;
linguo-;
locu-;
logo-;
loqu-;
mythico-;
-ology;
ora-;
-phasia;
-phemia;
phras-;
Quotes: Language,Part 1;
Quotes: Language, Part 2;
Quotes: Language, Part 3;
serm-;
tongue;
voc-.
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