Inflammation making it difficult to speak

• Throat inflammation
• Try sailing at sea - it'll leave you speechless!
• Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the larynx

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1822, Medical Latin, from comb. form of larynx (q.v.) + -itis .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Laryngitis is an inflammation of the larynx. Laryngitis may also refer to: "Laryngitis" (Glee) , a TV episode by Glee Obstructive laryngitis , a respiratory condition

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For her last week, Cuka had been appearing with understudy Richard Franklin because Crawford had laryngitis . ▪ Hadn't Lisa mentioned laryngitis as one of the symptoms? ▪ He could only really recapture the timbre if he had laryngitis ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Laryngitis \Lar`yn*gi"tis\, n. [NL. See Larynx , and -tis .] (Med.) Inflammation of the larynx.