#articulare

• Alveolo-palatal — Pertaining to the region between the upper alveolar ridge and the hard palate, relating to this anatomical zone, or articulated in this space. In phonetics, it describes consonants produced by placing the body of the tongue close to the hard palate and the tip of the tongue behind the alveolar ridge, such as the sibilant fricatives or affricates found in languages like Mandarin, Polish, or Russian.
• Amyoplasia — A specific and most common form of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, characterized by the defective muscular development or congenital absence of certain skeletal muscle groups, which are structurally replaced by fatty and fibrous tissue. This severe condition causes joint stiffness, symmetrical limb contractures, and reduced mobility from birth, typically without affecting the patient's intellectual development.
• Antermit — Situated, placed, or manifested before the emission of a signal or an articulated sound; relating to the preliminary phase of phonetic articulation. Broadly, the term defines a transitional state of controlled pause or a micro-temporal interval preceding a major acoustic phenomenon, serving to prepare the resonating structure.
• Antirheumatic — Preventing, combating, mitigating, or treating rheumatism; a medication or active substance prescribed to reduce joint or muscular pain, stiffness, and inflammation. In modern clinical practice, the term gathers a wide range of therapeutic pharmaceutical preparations, ranging from classical nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and corticosteroids to genetically modified biological agents that slow down connective tissue degradation.
• Apico-alveolar — Pertaining to the tip of the tongue and the alveoli of the upper teeth; a consonant or sound articulated by placing or bringing the tip of the tongue close to the upper alveolar ridge (e.g., certain variants of the consonants t, d, or s across various languages).
• Articulation — The act of articulating sounds, parts, or bony structures and its result; physiological process of altering the vocal tract to produce speech; a mobile mechanical assembly made of correlated parts; plural form of the adjective 'articular'. In a structural sense, it describes the method of functionally connecting the elements of a system.
• Arthria — The normal physiological capacity to articulate speech sounds clearly, distinctly, and correctly through the coordination of the vocal apparatus organs (tongue, lips, palate, vocal cords). In speech therapy and phonetics, the term represents the opposite of anarthria or dysarthria, defining the structural correctness of the mechanical word pronunciation process.
• Ataxophemia — A rare neurological and speech disorder manifested by a lack of coordination in the muscles involved in phonation, leading to defective articulation, rhythm irregularities, and jerky or incoherent speech. The condition is not caused by an intrinsic weakness of the vocal apparatus, but by a structural dysfunction in the transmission of motor nerve impulses, disrupting the harmonious sequence of emitted sounds.