Your patient has a lesion on cranial nerve X, resulting in difficulty making laryngeal sounds. This condition is known as
a. dysarthria. c. aphonia.
b. dysphonia. d. apraxia.
B
Dysphonia is difficulty making laryngeal sounds resulting from a lesion of CN X. Dysarthria is a disturbance in muscular control of speech resulting from ischemia affecting the motor nuclei of CN X and CN XII. Aphonia is the total loss of voice. Apraxia is the inability to convert the intended speech into the motor act of speech.
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