VOCALITY • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Vocality

... paralytica. Paralytic hoarseness consists in the almost total loss of voice, which sometimes continues for months, or even years, and is occasioned by inability or paralysis of the recurrent nerves, which serve the muscles of vocality, by opening or closing the larynx. The voice generally returns suddenly, even so as to alarm the patient. A young lady, who had many months been affected with almost a total loss of voice, and had in vain tried variety of advice, recovered ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin