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.
phonophorous
1. Transmitting sound-vibrations, as the auditory ossicles.
2. Capable of transmitting sound waves.
phonophote
An electrical device for converting sound vibrations into light.
phonophotography
1. Photographic recording of the vibratory characteristics of speech sounds.
2. The recording on a moving photographic plate of the movements imparted to a diaphragm by sound waves.
phonophotoscope, phonophotoscopic
A device for showing the vibrations of sound; especially, of voice sounds photographically.
phonopore, phonoporic
Name of an apparatus by means of which electrical impulses produced by induction, as in a telephone, may be used to transmit messages along a telegraph wire, without interfering with the current by which ordinary messages are simultaneously transmitted.
phonopsia
A condition in which the hearing of certain sounds gives rise to a subjective sensation of color or the condition of eliciting color sensations by acoustic stimulation; also synesthesia.
phonoreception
Perception of sound by a living organism; hearing.
phonoreceptor
A receptor for sound waves or sound stimuli.
phonorenogram
A graphic recording obtained from a phonocatheter of the pulsations in a renal artery. This procedure, designed to diagnose renal artery stenosis, is rarely employed.
phonorganon, phonorganum
An instrument imitating the sounds of the voice, a speaking-machine.
phonoscope
1. An instrument for recording ausculatory percussion; originally used for photographic recordings of heart sounds.
2. An instrument for observing or exhibiting motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, a device for testing the quality of musical strings.
3. An instrument for producing luminous figures with the vibrations of sounding bodies.
phonoscopy
The recording made by a phonoscope which includes a stethoscope and percussion to determine the borders of solid and hollow organs.
phonoselectoscope
A device for auscultation of the lungs that suppresses the normal lower-pitched sounds and enables higher-pitched, abnormal sounds to be heard more easily.
phonospasmia
Spasmodic muscular contractions precipitated by sounds heard or made by the patient.
phonostethograph
An instrument for amplifying and recording heart sounds.
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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