Diseases

Articulation Disorders

Disorders of the quality of speech characterized by the substitution, omission, distortion, and addition of phonemes.

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Abstract

Disorders of the quality of speech characterized by the substitution, omission, distortion, and addition of phonemes.

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26 entry terms
  • Disarticulation Disorders
  • Misarticulation
  • Phonological Impairments
  • Phonology Impairment
  • Speech Articulation Disorders
  • Articulation Disorder
  • Articulation Disorder, Speech
  • Articulation Disorders, Speech
  • Disarticulation Disorder
  • Disorder, Disarticulation
  • Disorders, Disarticulation
  • Impairment, Phonological
  • Impairment, Phonology
  • Impairments, Phonological
  • Impairments, Phonology
  • Phonological Impairment
  • Phonology Impairments
  • Speech Articulation Disorder
  • Articulation Disorders, Developmental
  • Developmental Articulation Disorders
  • Unintelligible Articulation
  • Articulation Disorder, Developmental
  • Articulation, Unintelligible
  • Articulations, Unintelligible
  • Developmental Articulation Disorder
  • Unintelligible Articulations

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

note categories: "articulation" refers to speech, not to joints

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History Note

1979

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Articulation Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001184. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001184
  2. Articulation Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18556221