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aphasia
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"Aphasia" is an instrumental by the Swedish heavy metal band Europe . It is the fifth track on the band's second studio album, Wings of Tomorrow , and is the shortest track on the album, with a playing length of approximately 2 minutes and 32 seconds. It ...
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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.
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n. inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
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.