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.
phonometer
1. An instrument for measuring the pitch and intensity of sounds.
2. An instrument for measuring or automatically recording the number or force of sound-waves; phonometrics.
phonometry
A method of investigating language by the statistical analysis of instrumentally measured speech sounds and informants responses to the same data.
phonomimic
A reference to a system of teaching the deaf to read in which each elementary speech sound is associated with an appropriate gesture.
phonomyoclonus
1. A condition in which a sound is heard on auscultation over a muscle, indicating fibrillary contractions that may be so fine that they are not seen when visually inspected.
2. Clonic spasms of muscles in response to aural stimuli.
3. The intermittent sound that may be heard when a stethoscope is applied to the skin over a muscle afflicted by myoclonic jerks.
phonomyogram
An acoustic recording of skeletal muscular activity.
phonomyography
The recording of the varying sounds made by contracting muscular tissue; usually supplementing visual oscillographic displays.
phonon
1. In physics, a quantum or quasiparticle associated with compressional waves; such as, sound or those in a crystal lattice.
2. The basic unit of sound energy.
phonopathy
1. Any structural of functional disorder of the component parts of the speech apparatus.
2. Any disease of the vocal organs affecting speech.
3. Any disease or disorder of phonation.
phonophilist
A collector of gramophones or old disks (records) that are played on gramophones.
phonophily
The collecting of phonograph records which is done by a phonophile or phonophiles.
phonophobia
1. A fear of speaking or of one's own voice; which may be due to the pain caused by speaking, as with certain organic disorders.
2. An excessive or abnormal fear of noise, sounds, or of speaking out loud.
3. A fear of the telephone.
phonophobic
Someone who has a pathological fear of sounds.
phonophone
A device for governing the rate of vibrations of a plate or diaphragm.
phonophore, phonophoric
1. Name for the small bones of the ear, or auditory ossicles, as transmitting the vibrations of sound to the labyrinth or internal ear.
2. A form of binaural stethoscope with a bell-shaped chest piece into which project the recurved extremities of the sound tubes.
3. A device to enable the deaf to hear, by conducting vibrations from the speaker's larynx to the hearer's teeth.
phonophoresis
The use of ultrasound to introduce medication into a tissue.
This has been used in treating injuries to soft tissues. Not all medicines are suitable for application using this technique.
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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