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Descriptor English: Voice Quality
Descriptor Spanish: Calidad de la Voz
Descriptor cualidad de la voz
Scope note: Componente del HABLA que proporciona la distinción principal a la VOZ de una persona determinada que habla, con exclusión del tono y del volumen. Quedan implicadas las características fonatorias y de resonancia. Algunas de las descripciones de la cualidad de la voz son rudeza, voz entrecortada y nasalidad.
Descriptor Portuguese: Qualidade da Voz
Descriptor French: Qualité de la voix
Entry term(s): Qualities, Voice
Quality, Voice
Voice Qualities
Tree number(s): G09.772.925.960
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014833
Scope note: That component of SPEECH which gives the primary distinction to a given speaker's VOICE when pitch and loudness are excluded. It involves both phonatory and resonatory characteristics. Some of the descriptions of voice quality are harshness, breathiness and nasality.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Voice (1966-1978)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under VOICE 1979-90
History Note: 91(79); was see under VOICE 1979-90
Related: Hoarseness MeSH
Phonation MeSH
DeCS ID: 15235
Unique ID: D014833
NLM Classification: WV 501
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1978/05/22
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Voice Quality - Preferred
Concept UI M0022834
Scope note That component of SPEECH which gives the primary distinction to a given speaker's VOICE when pitch and loudness are excluded. It involves both phonatory and resonatory characteristics. Some of the descriptions of voice quality are harshness, breathiness and nasality.
Preferred term Voice Quality
Entry term(s) Qualities, Voice
Quality, Voice
Voice Qualities



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