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Difficulty in articulating words due to a disturbance in the form or function of the structures that modulate voice into speech; one of the first indicative symptoms of myasthenia gravis, brought about by an autoimmune response to acetylcholine receptors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, neurology, neuroscience, sciences
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impaired articulatory ability resulting from defects in the peripheral motor nerves or in the speech musculature
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: speech disorder, speech defect, defect of speech
From international scientific vocabulary, from German Dysarthrie. By surface analysis, dys- + -arthria.
Across languages
Translations
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
disàrtria
— difficulty in articulating
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Dutch:
dysartrie
— difficulty in articulating
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Finnish:
dysartria
— difficulty in articulating
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French:
dysarthrie
— difficulty in articulating
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Galician:
disartria
— difficulty in articulating
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German:
Dysarthrie
— difficulty in articulating
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Greek:
δυσαρθρία
(dysarthría)
— difficulty in articulating
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Italian:
disartria
— difficulty in articulating
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Portuguese:
disartria
— difficulty in articulating
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Romanian:
disartrie
— difficulty in articulating
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Spanish:
disartria
— difficulty in articulating
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Swedish:
dysartri
— difficulty in articulating
