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Definition of Alexia
1. Noun. Inability to perceive written words.
Definition of Alexia
1. n. As used by some, inability to read aloud, due to brain disease.
Definition of Alexia
1. Proper noun. (Ancient Greek female given name) . ¹
2. Noun. (psychiatry) The inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alexia
1. a cerebral disorder marked by the loss of the ability to read [n -S]
Medical Definition of Alexia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Alexia
Literary usage of Alexia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The terrestrial air-breathing mollusks of the United States, and the by Amos Binney (1859)
"A. denticulata Gld., DeK. is the same as alexia myosotis. ... GENUS alexia LEACH.
Shell oblong-ovate, thin, spire pointed; last whorl large, rounded at base ..."
2. Diagnosis from Ocular Symptoms by Matthias Lanckton Foster (1917)
"Some of the patients had alexia, others had not. According to Bing the cerebral
lesion is supposed to be so situated as to interrupt the connection between ..."
3. Ophthalmic review (1888)
"A case of alexia, with right homonymous hemianopsia. ... Wernicke has defined
Subcortical alexia as that form of disease in which the capacity of reading is ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"alexia. See APHASIA. A LEX IA I), a life of the Emperor Alexius Comnenus (qv) by
the Princess Anna Com- nena, his daughter. This work, which is one of the ..."
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