laryngitis

This term is a medical diagnosis referring to the inflammation of the vocal cords. In a clinical context, it is treated as a condition rather than a countable object. It is typically used with the indefinite article "a" when referring to a specific instance or "case" of the illness, but the noun itself remains grammatically uncountable.

Because it describes a physiological state, it is rarely pluralized. One does not have "laryngitises" but rather "multiple episodes of laryngitis." It is most commonly paired with adjectives describing severity, such as "acute" or "chronic," to specify the duration and intensity of the inflammation.