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Definition of Alalia
1. Noun. Paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak.
Definition of Alalia
1. n. Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.
Definition of Alalia
1. Noun. (medicine) The loss of the ability to speak, especially due to paralysis of the vocal cords ¹
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Definition of Alalia
1. loss of speech [n -S]
Medical Definition of Alalia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Alalia
Literary usage of Alalia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1874)
"alalia by hebetude. 2. alalia by verbal amnesia. 3. alalia by interruption of
voluntary transmission. 4. alalia by default of co-ordination in the motor ..."
2. The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic by Adam Ferguson (1839)
"... continued his march by Macedonia and the Hellespont into Ask. In passing
through (¡alalia, ... alalia ..."
3. A History Of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close Of the Generation by George Grote (1869)
"Twenty years before, however, the colony of alalia in the island of Corsica had
been founded from ..."
4. The Chicago Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1874)
"alalia by hebetude. 2. alalia by verbal amnesia. 3. alalia by interruption of
voluntary transmission. 4. alalia by default of co-ordination in thu motor ..."
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