A group of operations designed to improve or alter a patient's voice. ... (05 Mar 2000) ... 
(fo´no-sur″jәr-e) a group of surgical procedures whose purpose is to restore, maintain, or enhance the voice.
Type: Term Pronunciation: fō′nō-ser′jĕr-ē Definitions: 1. A group of operations designed to improve or alter the voice.
Phonosurgery: Surgical procedures that maintain, restore, or enhance the human voice. Phonosurgery includes phonomicrosurgery (microsurgery of the vocal folds done through an endoscope), laryngoplastic phonosurgery (open-neck surgery that restructures the cartilaginous framework of the larynx and the soft tissues), laryngeal injection (injection in...
phonosurgery A group of operations designed to improve or alter a patient's voice.