vocal+organs
111Rosenzweig, Franz — born Dec. 25, 1886, Kassel, Ger. died Dec. 10, 1929, Frankfurt am Main German existentialist and religious philosopher. As a student at Berlin and Freiburg, he rejected the idealism of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. He briefly thought of… …
112tongues, gift of — ▪ religion also called glossolalia (from Greek glōssa, “tongue,” and lalia, “talking”), utterances approximating words and speech, usually produced during states of intense religious excitement. The vocal organs of the speaker are… …
113Habit — • Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at will… …
114Charles-Michel de l'Epee — Charles Michel de l Epée † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Charles Michel de l Epée A philanthropic priest and inventor of the sign alphabet for the instruction of the deaf and dumb; was b. at Versailles, 25 November, 1712; d. at Paris, 23… …
115laughter — noun /ˈlɑːftə,ˈlæftɚ/ a) The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound. Their loud laughter betrayed their presence b) A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, with a… …
116articulate — 1. SYN: articulated. 2. Capable of distinct and connected meaningful speech. (ar tik′yu lat). 3. To join or connect together loosely to allow motion between the parts. 4. To speak distinctly and connectedly. [L. articulo, pp. atus, to a.] * * *… …
117olophonia — Impaired speech caused by an anatomical defect in the vocal organs. [G. oloos, destroyed, lost, + phone, voice] …
118Morell Mackenzie — Sir Morell Mackenzie Morell Mackenzie, sir Mackenzie, est né à Leytonstone, au Royaume Uni, le 7 juillet 1837, et est décédé à Londres le 3 février 1892. Pionnier de la laryngologie en Grande Bretagne, il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages… …
119Rinne's test — Rin·ne s test rin əz or Rin·ne test rin ə n a test for determining a subject s ability to hear a vibrating tuning fork when it is held next to the ear and when it is placed on the mastoid process with diminished hearing acuity through air and… …
120syrinx — c.1600, the instrument itself known from 14c. in English, from L.L. syrinx, from Gk. syrinx shepherd s pipe. Used of vocal organs of birds from 1872 …
