phoniatricadj.
/ˌfəʊnɪˈatrɪk/, U.S. /ˌfoʊniˈætrɪk/ Medicine.
Of or relating to the study and treatment of disorders and defects of the voice.
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phoniatric1924
1924 Lancet 2 Aug. 237/1 At the end of the session the ‘Logopedic and Phoniatric Society’ was founded.
1938 Jrnl. Speech 3 286 (title) Phoniatric aspects of unilateral recurrent paralysis.
1947 Folia Phoniatrica 1 14 Patients often receive wrongly and unsuccessfully treatment for chronic laryngitis, whereas, only phoniatric treatment..is promising.
1960 F. Trojan Current Probl. Phoniatrics & Logopedics I. 53 Further research will enable this problem to be solved both from the surgical and the phoniatric point of view.
1986 Cleft Palate Jrnl. 23 41 Phoniatric evaluation showed that two patients had better speech after operation than before with an obturator.
2004 Menopause 11 151 Severe menopausal voice impairments, even without other climacteric symptoms, should be regarded as an indication for phoniatric examination.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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