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Definition of Anarthria
1. Noun. Partial or total loss of articulate speech resulting from lesions of the central nervous system.
Definition of Anarthria
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Medical Definition of Anarthria
1. Loss of the power of articulate speech. See: aphasia, alexia, dysarthria. Origin: G. Fr. An-anthos, without joints; (of sound) inarticulate (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anarthria
Literary usage of Anarthria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Clinical text-book of medical diagnosis by Oswald Vierordt (1895)
"... and anarthria. By these expressions we understand those disturbances of
speech /j which we see it altered in the same way as the activity of a ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"Motor aphasia, according to Marie, is simply Wernicke's aphasia plus anarthria.
Dr. Mills did not see how this definition is to be accepted unless we give a ..."
3. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1913)
"nicke 's sensory aphasia, while the isolated motor disturbance properly belonged
to anarthria. If associated with Wernicke's aphasia it gave rise to the ..."
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