![]() ![]() As the painter looked at the gracious and comely form he had so skilfully mirrored in his art, a smile of pleasure passed across his face, and seemed about to linger there. ![]() But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake. "It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done," said Lord Henry, languidly. "You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse. The Grosvenor is really the only place." "I don't think I shall send it anywhere," he answered, tossing his head back in that odd way that used to make his friends laugh at him at Oxford. "No: I won't send it anywhere." Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows, and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy opium-tainted cigarette. "Not send it anywhere? My dear fellow, why? Have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Laryngeal nerve paralysis: The nerves leading to the voice box may be damaged by any surgery in the region where a nerve travels, such as thyroid surgery, heart surgery, or head and neck surgeries.A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men quite jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion." "I know you will laugh at me," he replied, "but I really can't exhibit it I have put too much of myself into it." Lord Henry stretched himself out on the divan and laughed.Spasmodic dysphonia: Spasmodic dysphonia is a local problem with the muscles of the larynx, resulting in hoarseness.A common cause of trauma occurs when the vocal cords are damaged by a tube that is placed down the throat during surgery ( endotracheal tube) or during a bronchoscopy. Trauma: Blunt trauma to the throat region, for example during a motor vehicle accident may damage the vocal cords.Neurological conditions: Strokes, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis may all cause hoarseness due to their effects on the nerves supplying the vocal cords.Metastatic cancer spreading to the mediastinum (the area between the lungs), can press on the recurrent laryngeal nerves leading to the voice box and cause hoarseness. Cancer: Cancers of the voicebox ( laryngeal cancer), throat, lungs, thyroid, and lymphomas may have hoarseness as a symptom, sometimes as the first symptom.It appears that some inhaled corticosteroids are more likely than others to cause problems. Long-term use of inhaled corticosteroids: Inhaled corticosteroids, a category of inhalers used chronically for asthma or COPD can result in a hoarse voice.Most are caused by HPV types 6 and 11, strains that are included in HPV vaccinations. It is seen most often in children and usually caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). ![]()
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