| alaryngeal speech | A form of speech achieved after laryngectomy by using either an external vibratory source or the pharyngoesophageal segment as an internal vibratory source. Tracheoesophageal speech may be produced after laryngectomy by surgically diverting exhaled air to the pharynx by a permanently constructed tracheoesophageal fistula. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| american speech-language-hearing association | A professional society concerned with the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and remediation of speech, language, and hearing disorders. (12 Dec 1998) |
| audiometry, speech | Measurement of the ability to hear speech under various conditions of intensity and noise interference using sound-field as well as earphones and bone oscillators. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rehabilitation of speech and language disorders | Procedures for assisting a person with a speech or language disorder to communicate with maximum efficiency. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cerebellar speech | An explosive type of utterance, with slurring of words. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mirror speech | A reversal of the order of syllables in a word, analogous to mirror writing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| clipped speech | A form of lalling in which consonants or syllables that are difficult to pronounce are omitted. Synonym: clipped speech. (05 Mar 2000) |
| motor speech centre | The posterior part of the inferior frontal gyrus of the left or dominant hemisphere, corresponding approximately to Brodmann's area 44; Broca identified this region as an essential component of the motor mechanisms governing articulated speech. Synonym: Broca's area, Broca's field, motor speech centre. (05 Mar 2000) |
| helium speech | The peculiar high-pitched, often unintelligible speech sounds produced when one breathes a mixture of up to 80 per cent helium and 20 per cent oxygen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scamping speech | A form of lalling in which consonants or syllables that are difficult to pronounce are omitted. Synonym: clipped speech. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scanning speech | Measured or metered, often slow speech. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sensory speech centre | The region of the cerebral cortex thought to be essential for understanding and formulating coherent, propositional speech; it encompasses a large region of the parietal and temporal lobes near the lateral sulcus of the left cerebral hemisphere; corresponding approximately to Brodmann's areas 40, 39, and 22. Synonym: sensory speech centre, Wernicke's area, Wernicke's field, Wernicke's region, Wernicke's zone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| slurring speech | Slovenly articulation of the more difficult letter sounds. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spastic speech | Labored speech related to increased tone of muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| speech | 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. "There is none comparable to the variety of instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts." (Holder) 2. He act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation. Speech is voice modulated by the throat, tongue, lips, etc, the modulation being accomplished by changing the form of the cavity of the mouth and nose through the action of muscles which move their walls. "O goode God! how gentle and how kind Ye seemed by your speech and your visage The day that maked was our marriage." (Chaucer) "The acts of God . . . To human ears Can nort without process of speech be told." (Milton) 3. A particular language, as distinct from others; a tongue; a dialect. "People of a strange speech and of an hard language." (Ezek. Iii. 6) 4. Talk; mention; common saying. "The duke . . . Did of me demand What was the speech among the Londoners Concerning the French journey." (Shak) 5. Formal discourse in public; oration; harangue. "The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point." (Swift) 6. Ny declaration of thoughts. "I. With leave of speech implored, . . . Replied." (Milton) Synonym: Harangue, language, address, oration. See Harangue, and Language. Origin: OE. Speche, AS. Spc, spr, fr. Specan, sprecan, to speak; akin to D. Spraak speech, OHG. Sprahha, G. Sprache, Sw. Sprk, Dan. Sprog. See Speak. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |