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pharyngitis
(redirected from Rough voice)

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pharyngitis

Inflammation and infection (usually bacterial or viral) of the pharynx. Symptoms include pain (sore throat, worse on swallowing), redness, swollen lymph nodes, and fever. Throat culture may be the only way to distinguish infection with streptococcus bacteria (strep throat), which can cause rheumatic fever if not treated in time with antibiotics, from viral infections, which do not respond to antibiotics and require only symptom relief.



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In a nutshell: The always-dependable entertainer brings his sweet, rough voice and good-natured delivery downtown for a highly entertaining, hits-packed show.
By the alchemy of seriousness, Van Ronk turns his rough voice, made rougher by the punishingly slow tempo he takes, into that of a young woman, self- abnegating, sorrow-full.
22) "But in the comedies it is unbearable to see the part of a young woman played by a man with a long beard and a rough voice.
 
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