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Dysarthria

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    impaired articulatory ability resulting from defects in the peripheral motor nerves or in the speech musculature wordnet

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, from German Dysarthrie. By surface analysis, dys- + -arthria.

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