Definition of Aphasiac

1. one suffering from aphasia [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aphasiac

aphagias
aphakia
aphakial
aphakic
aphakic eye
aphakic glaucoma
aphaniptera
aphanipterous
aphanite
aphanites
aphanitic
aphantic
aphasia
aphasiac (current term)
aphasiacs
aphasias
aphasic
aphasics
aphasiologist
aphasiology
aphasmid
aphasy
aphelian
aphelias
aphelions
apheliotropic

Literary usage of Aphasiac

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Physiology and Histology of the Cerebral Convolutions by Charles Robert Richet (1879)
"Thus the intelligence of an aphasiac is impaired in one of its constituent ... That man would not be an aphasiac ; on the other hand, observation shows that ..."

2. Major and Minor Keys: Critical Essays on Philippine Fiction and Poetry by Ricaredo D. Demetillo (1872)
"This aphasiac patient was exceptionally hémiplégie on the left side; but he was also ... By his own account, though completely aphasiac, his mind was clear. ..."

3. Memorias: Transactions (1898)
"... to admit that this is true of the motor aphasiac, but I fear there are exceptions to the usual method of copying printing by the sensory aphasiac. ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"A motor aphasiac cannot write spontaneously, but can copy printing as script, This is an intellectual act, and the graphic images ..."

5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"... but just as the aphasiac patient cannot get hold of the words he wants, so they cannot quite show us what they want to show. But all this relies on the ..."

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