Abductor spasmodic dysphonia: A disorder in which sudden muscle spasms cause the vocal folds (or vocal cords) to stay open. See: spasmodic dysphonia.
Home page of the National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association. ... to me speak and then ran some tests. He confirmed I had abductor spasmodic dysphonia.
Fact sheet on abductor and adductor SD, with links to audio clips, diagnostic information, reviews of medical and surgical approaches, and national listings for ...
Additional symptoms in some patients with abductor spasmodic dysphonia (SD) include pitch changes, phonatory breaks during vowels, uncontrolled rises in vowels ...
Because both the muscles that open and the muscles that close the vocal folds are not working properly, it has features of both adductor and abductor spasmodic dysphonia.
As expected, she did much better vocalizing the difficult phrases for ABductor spasmodic dysphonia in the 3rd audio clip which accentuates voiceless weighted words which ...