| SDL | serum digoxin level; speech discrimination level |
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| SDT | sensory detection theory; right sacrotransverse [fetal position] [Lat. sacrodextra transversa]; sign... |
| S&H | speech and hearing |
| SIL | soluble interleukin; speech interference level |
| SP | sacroposterior; sacrum to pubis; salivary progesterone; schizotypal personality; semi-private [room]... |
| speech perception | The process whereby an utterance is decoded into a representation in terms of linguistic units (sequences of phonetic segments which combine to form lexical and grammatical morphemes). (12 Dec 1998) |
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| speech production measurement | Measurement of parameters of the speech product such as vocal tone, loudness, pitch, voice quality, articulation, resonance, phonation, phonetic structure and prosody. (12 Dec 1998) |
| speech reception threshold test | A test to determine the lowest sound intensity level at which fifty percent or more of the spondaic test words (words of two syllables having equal stress) are repeated correctly. (12 Dec 1998) |
| speech therapist | <specialist> An individual trained to assist patients in restoring speech and communication functions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| staccato speech | An abrupt utterance, each syllable being enunciated separately; noted especially in multiple sclerosis. Synonym: syllabic speech. (05 Mar 2000) |
| subvocal speech | Slight movements of the muscles of speech related to thinking but producing no sound. (05 Mar 2000) |
| syllabic speech | An abrupt utterance, each syllable being enunciated separately; noted especially in multiple sclerosis. Synonym: syllabic speech. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oesophageal speech | Speech produced with air trapped in the oesophagus and forced out again. (12 Dec 1998) |
| echo speech | A disorder of speech where there is an involuntary repetition several times of the same word. (27 Sep 1997) |
| tracheoesophageal speech | A form of alaryngeal speech obtained by a surgical technique which creates a shunt between trachea and oesophagus, allowing pulmonary air to generate upper oesophageal and pharyngeal mucosal vibrations as a substitute for vocal cord vibrations when the larynx is surgically removed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| explosive speech | Loud, sudden speech related to injury of the nervous system. Synonym: logospasm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| absent nasal septum | <radiology> Cocaine, Wegener's (midline lethal granuloma), surgery, trauma, syphilis, sarcoid (12 Dec 1998) |
| accessory nasal cartilages | Variable small plates of cartilage located in the interval between the greater alar and lateral nasal cartilages. Synonym: cartilagines nasales accessoriae, sesamoid cartilages of nose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior nasal aperture | The anterior nasal opening in the skull. Synonym: apertura piriformis, piriform opening. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior nasal spine | A pointed projection at the anterior extremity of the intermaxillary suture; the tip, as seen on a lateral cephalometric radiograph, is used as a cephalometric landmark. Synonym: spina nasalis anterior. (05 Mar 2000) |