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Definition of Aphasia
1. Noun. Inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion.
Specialized synonyms: Acoustic Aphasia, Auditory Aphasia, Word Deafness, Associative Aphasia, Conduction Aphasia, Global Aphasia, Total Aphasia, Ataxic Aphasia, Broca's Aphasia, Expressive Aphasia, Motor Aphasia, Nonfluent Aphasia, Amnesic Aphasia, Amnestic Aphasia, Anomia, Anomic Aphasia, Nominal Aphasia, Transcortical Aphasia, Alexia, Visual Aphasia, Word Blindness, Fluent Aphasia, Impressive Aphasia, Receptive Aphasia, Sensory Aphasia, Wernicke's Aphasia
Derivative terms: Aphasic, Aphasic
Definition of Aphasia
1. n. Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.
Definition of Aphasia
1. Noun. (pathology) A partial or total loss of language skills due to brain damage. Usually, damage to the left perisylvian region, including Broca's area and Wernike's area, causes aphasia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aphasia
1. loss of the ability to use words [n -S]
Medical Definition of Aphasia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Aphasia
Literary usage of Aphasia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"aphasia FROM AN UNUSUAL CAUSE. BY A. FERREE WIT MER, MD Read December 14, 1898.
BY aphasia was originally meant au inability to express thought in words. ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The More Complex Forms of aphasia Under this heading we include (1) Broca's motor
aphasia, (2) Wernicke's sensory aphasia, (3) total aphasia, and (4) other ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"Marie asserts that Broca's motor aphasia and Wernicke's sensory aphasia are very
analogous, with the capital exception that in Broca'f ..."
4. 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 (1906)
"The seat of all true aphasia is in a comparatively limited area of the brain
cortex, and includes the supramarginal convolution, the angular gyrus, ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Visual aphasia or Alexia.—The visual speech centre, which is located in the left
... Word blindness, sometimes used as the equivalent of visual aphasia, is, ..."
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