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Impaired articulatory ability resulting from defects in the peripheral motor nerves or in the speech musculature
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dysarthria
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WordNet
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n. impaired articulatory ability resulting from defects in the peripheral motor nerves or in the speech musculature
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Difficulty in articulating words due to disturbance in the form or function of the structures that modulate voice into speech. One of first indicative symptoms of myasthenia gravis brought about by an auto-immune response to acetylcholine receptor.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder resulting from neurological injury of the motor component of the motor-speech system and is characterized by poor articulation of phonemes ( cf. aphasia : a disorder of the content of language). In other words, it is ...
Usage examples of dysarthria.
He sounded like the airline pilot who, having just slipped two seemingly certain mid-air collisions and finding himself in the midst of a radar fuse-out and control-tower dysarthria, says over the intercom: "Well, ladies and gentlemen, we'll be busy up here in the cockpit making our final approach into Pittsburgh, and so we want to take this opportunity to thank you for flying American and we hope we'll see you again real soon.