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Hypophonia vs Hypophoria - What's the difference?

hypophonia | hypophoria |

As nouns the difference between hypophonia and hypophoria

is that hypophonia is the condition of having a quiet voice; inability to speak loudly while hypophoria is physical misalignment of the two eyes so that one eye is set lower in the head than the other.

hypophonia

English

Noun

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  • (medicine) The condition of having a quiet voice; inability to speak loudly.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • She would have to make a notable effort to speak, but the effort notwithstanding she would speak a whisper quite different in quality from the hypophonia she had shown in her pre-DOPA days.

    hypophoria

    English

    Noun

  • physical misalignment of the two eyes so that one eye is set lower in the head than the other