Definition of aphasia Aphasia
/ʌfejˈʒʌ/ - [ufeyshu] - a•pha•si•a
We found 6 definitions of aphasia from 6 different sources.
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What does aphasia mean?
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NounPlural: aphasias |
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| aphasia - inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion | ||
| brain disease, brain disorder, encephalopathy any disorder or disease of the brain | ||
| acoustic aphasia, auditory aphasia, word deafness an impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss | ||
| associative aphasia, conduction aphasia aphasia in which the lesion is assumed to be in the association tracts connecting the various language centers in the brain; patient's have difficulty repeating a sentence just heard | ||
| global aphasia, total aphasia loss of all ability to communicate | ||
| ataxic aphasia, broca's aphasia, expressive aphasia, motor aphasia, nonfluent aphasia aphasia in which expression by speech or writing is severely impaired | ||
| amnesic aphasia, amnestic aphasia, anomic aphasia, nominal aphasia, anomia inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects | ||
| transcortical aphasia a general term for aphasia that results from lesions outside of Broca's area or Wernicke's area of the cerebral cortex | ||
| alexia, visual aphasia, word blindness inability to perceive written words | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- aphasia (n.)
Alt. of Aphasy
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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aphasia
A loss of the ability to produce and/or comprehend language, due to injury to brain areas specialized for these functions, Broca's area, which governs language production, or Wernicke's area, which governs the interpretation of language. (source: Wikipedia)
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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aphasia
a-fā′zi-a, n. inability to express thought in words by reason of some brain disease: or, more widely still, the loss of the faculty of interchanging thought, without any affection of the intellect or will.—adj. Aphas′ic. [Gr.; a, neg., phasis, speech—phanai, to speak.]
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🔤- aphasia, noun, singular of aphasias.
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