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Definition of Transcortical aphasia
1. Noun. A general term for aphasia that results from lesions outside of Broca's area or Wernicke's area of the cerebral cortex.
Medical Definition of Transcortical aphasia
1. An aphasia in which the unaffected motor and sensory language areas are isolated from the rest of the hemispheric cortex. Subdivided into transcortical sensory and transcortical motor aphasias. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transcortical Aphasia
Literary usage of Transcortical aphasia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association Annual Meeting by American Medico-Psychological Association (1907)
"transcortical aphasia he also attributed to associational disorder. He divided
aphasia first into two great classes: one dependent upon diseases of the ..."
2. Diseases of the Nervous System by Archibald Church, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"Here also there is a striking contrast between the perception of speech and its
expression: In sensory transcortical aphasia there is no comprehension of ..."
3. A Practical Treatise on Medical Diagnosis for Students and Physicians by John Herr Musser (1913)
"In general, lesions in the centres themselves cause cortical aphasia; in fibers
connecting the centres, transcortical aphasia; in those running back and ..."
4. Medical Diagnosis: Special Diagnosis of Internal Medicine by Wilhelm von Leube, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1904)
"Such lesions which concern all of those associations and which cause a complete "
transcortical " aphasia, cannot very wi-H be imagined as being due to ..."
5. American Physical Education Review by American Physical Education Association (1898)
"(4) Compound aphasia, due to a combination of two or more of these associative
or transcortical aphasia, the author classifies with sensory aphasia, ..."
6. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"The symptoms of transcortical aphasia occur only as the result of complicated
cortical and subcortical lesions, and the treatment of the disease does not ..."
7. Diseases of the Nervous System: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by Hermann Oppenheim, Edward E. Mayer (1904)
"... that a purely cortical disease, in an anatomic sense, is rare, and that the
anatomic meaning of the so-called transcortical aphasia is still uncertain. ..."
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