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Loss of power to use or understand words
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aphasia
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Aphasia is a female heavy metal / hard rock band from Japan still active today. Their latest release is Sweet Illusion .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aphasia \A*pha"si*a\, Aphasy \Aph"a*sy\, n. [NL. aphasia, Gr. ?, fr. ? not spoken; 'a priv. + ? to speak: cf. F. aphasie.] (Med.) Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) A partial or total loss of language skills due to brain damage. Usually, damage to the left perisylvian region, including Broca's area and Wernicke's area, causes aphasia.
Usage examples of aphasia.
All adequate understanding of aphasia or agnosia would, he believed, require a new, more sophisticated science.
There was aphasia, loss of speech, alexia, loss of reading, agraphia, loss of writing, and agnosia, loss of recognition.
Aphasia, amnesia, aphonia--and often anosmia and apnoea--are symptoms of hysteria.
What matters is that you understand that Aphasia Wye is coming with you.
She had no more love for Aphasia Wye than did Terek Molt, but she found him useful in carrying out assignments that others would either refuse or mishandle.
What if he had lost his memory and was stumbling around Pittsburgh this morning blinded with aphasia and loss of identity?
Lesions in the temporal lobe can result in a form of aphasia, the inability to recognize spoken words.
The first such patient was unable to speak for a month after the operation, but his aphasia later disappeared.
Simultaneously with these volumes of Frazer, however, there was appearing in Paris a no less important series of publications by the distinguished neurologist Jean Martin Charcot, treating of hysteria, aphasia, hypnotic states, and the like.
Frazer, however, there was appearing in Paris a no less important series of publications by the distinguished neurologist Jean Martin Charcot, treating of hysteria, aphasia, hypnotic states, and the like.
Although he was somewhat emaciated, medical examination revealed no organic abnormality, nor was there evidence of formal thought disorder, aphasia, or auditory hallucination, and he presented a near-normal affect.
Perhaps she was afflicted with only expressive aphasia, but she must be confused to some degree.
He has pronounced guilt feelings and exhibits selective aphasia on the conscious level about several episodes that recur as dream symbols.
I might yield to the seductions of void, taking a generation with me into blank climates, far beyond any place we'd been before, chancing endless pain to our children, misbirth and aphasia, all asleep in drool.
Finally, in semantic aphasia, the full significance of words and phrases is lost.