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Definition of Motor aphasia

1. Noun. Aphasia in which expression by speech or writing is severely impaired.

Medical Definition of Motor aphasia

1. A type of aphasia in which there is a deficit in speech production or language output, often accompanied by a deficit in communicating by writing, signs, etc. The patient is aware of his impairment. Synonym: anterior aphasia, ataxic aphasia, Broca's aphasia, expressive aphasia, nonfluent aphasia. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Motor aphasia

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

1. 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)
"(l}Broca's motor aphasia (Cortical motor aphasia of Wernicke; True Cortical Motor Aphasia of Dejerine) In this condition, as in pure word-dumbness, ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"It is probable, as Dejerine says, that a subcortical motor aphasia, ... motor aphasia, according to Marie, is simply Wernicke's aphasia plus anarthria. ..."

3. 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 (1914)
"Men like von Monakow and Dejerine have each recorded cases with almost exact localization in Broca's area and with the symptoms of motor aphasia. ..."

4. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences embracing the entire range of by Albert Henry Buck (1908)
"Although iu cortical motor aphasia the power to make voluntary expression is ... Occasionally patients who are alluded with complete; motor aphasia are ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... a term employed to designate a motor aphasia. See APHASIA. In the early autumn the colonies of plant-lice are composed of both male and female ..."

6. Psychology by Williams James (1892)
"motor aphasia is neither loss of voice nor paralysis of the tongue or lips. The patient's voice is as strong as ever, and all the innervations of his Fin. ..."

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