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aphasia
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun aphasia has 1 sense
- aphasia(n = noun.state) Array - inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion; Array is a kind of brain disease, brain disorder, encephalopathy
has particulars: 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
Derived forms adjective aphasic2, adjective aphasic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
aphasia, n. [NL. aphasia, Gr. , fr. not spoken; 'a priv. + to speak: cf. F. aphasie.].
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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
aphasia, n. Med. the loss of ability to understand or express speech, owing to brain damage.
Derivative
aphasic adj. & n.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk f. aphatos speechless f. a- not + pha- speak
THESAURUS
aphasia
anaudia, aphonia, aphrasia, deaf-muteness, dumbness, dysarthria, dysphasia, echolalia, hysterical aphonia, imperfect speech, inarticulateness, incoherence, jargon aphasia, loss of speech, motor aphasia, muteness, mutism, paranomia, paraphasia, psychophonasthenia, speech defect, speechlessness, tonguelessness, verbigeration, voicelessness, wordlessness
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