| 单词 | laryngitis |
| 释义 | laryngitis (once / 41327 pages) n If your throat is very sore and your voice is hoarse, you may have laryngitis. Laryngitis happens when the larynx gets red, painful, and swollen. Some people temporarily lose the ability to speak at all when they get laryngitis, while others can only talk in a hoarse whisper. Laryngitis has many different causes, some of which can be spread between people, like the flu, and others which can't, like allergies or simply talking too long or loudly. Laryngitis is a medical Latin term that combines larynx, "the upper windpipe" in Greek, and -itis, "inflammation." WORD FAMILYlaryngitis USAGE EXAMPLESBut Ginsburg, reading the opinion with a voice made faint from laryngitis, said the justices disagreed. Washington Post(Nov 29, 2016) They progressively worsened, and by earlier this year his voice was “very scratchy, very low, like a severe case of laryngitis,” he says. Wall Street Journal(Oct 24, 2016) One of them, Rob Strong, pulled out with laryngitis and so sent along his 16-year-old son, Andrew. Los Angeles Times(Aug 18, 2016) n inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx; characterized by hoarseness or loss of voice and coughing Hyper inflammation, redness, rubor a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat |
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