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Definition of Acataphasia
1. Noun. A disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner.
Definition of Acataphasia
1. Noun. (pathology) A loss of the ability to express oneself using organized syntax ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Acataphasia
1. Inability to correctly formulate a statement. Origin: G. A-priv. + kataphasis, affirmation (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acataphasia
Literary usage of Acataphasia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"It appears as a degenerative symptom in various forms of chronic INSANITY (qv).
(JJ) acataphasia (or Akat-) [Gr. а + ..."
2. The Mind of the Child: Observations Concerning the Mental Development of the by William T. Preyer (1889)
"Agrammatism in child-language always appears in company with acataphasia, often
also in insane persons. When the imbecile Tony says, " Tony flowers taken, ..."
3. The Mind of the Child: Observations Concerning the Mental Development of the by William T. Preyer (1889)
"acataphasia (Steinthal).—The child that has already a considerable number of
words at his disposal is not yet in condition to arrange them in a sentence ..."
4. Abnormal Man: Being Essays on Education and Crime and Related Subjects, with by Arthur MacDonald (1893)
"... and acataphasia of the insane and idiots. Preyer shows the atavistic mark of
these anomalies; that while abnormal in the insane they are normal at a ..."
5. Text-book of human physiology by Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker (1905)
"... and acataphasia, or the inability correctly to form words grammatically and
to arrange them ..."
6. Practitioner's medical dictionary by George Milbry Gould (1910)
"... site with numerous sharp tubercles, spines, and hairs on the dorsal surface.
See Scabies. acataphasia (ali-kat-aj-a'-ze-ah) [a, priv. ; TOTO, after; ..."
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