aphasia

aphasia

inability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or injury of the brain

Not to be confused with:

aphagia – difficulty or pain in swallowing

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a·pha·sia

 (ə-fā′zhə)

n.

Partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, resulting from damage to the brain from injury or disease.

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[Greek, from aphatos, speechless : a-, not; see a-¹ + phatos, spoken, speakable (from phanai, to speak; see -phasia).]

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a·pha′si·ac′ (-zē-ăk′) n.

a·pha′sic (-zĭk, -sĭk) adj. & n.

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aphasia

(əˈfeɪzɪə)

n

(Pathology) a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by partial or total loss of the ability to communicate, esp in speech or writing. Compare alexia

[C19: via New Latin from Greek, from a-¹ + -phasia, from phanai to speak]

aˈphasiˌac, aˈphasic adj, n

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a•pha•sia

(əˈfeɪ ʒə)

n.

the loss of a previously held ability to speak or understand spoken or written language, due to disease or injury of the brain.

[1865–70; < Greek: speechlessness =a- a-⁶ + phat(ós) spoken, v. adj. of phánai to speak + -ia -ia]

a•pha′sic, adj., n.

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aphasia

Pathology. an impairment or loss of the faculty of understanding or using spoken or written language. — aphasiac, n. — aphasic, n., adj.

See also: Speech

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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, anomia, anomic aphasia, nominal aphasia - 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 fluent aphasia, impressive aphasia, receptive aphasia, sensory aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia - aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words

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Translations

afasi

Aphasie

αφασία

afasia

afasia

aphasie

málstol

afasia

afasie

afasi

afasia

афазия

aphasia

[æˈfeɪzɪə] N → afasia f

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aphasia

[əˈfeɪziə] (MEDICINE) n → aphasie f

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aphasia

n → Aphasie f

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a·pha·si·a

n. afasia, incapacidad de coordinar el pensamiento y la palabra;

amnestic ___ → ___ amnéstica;

ataxic ___ → ___ atáxica.

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aphasia

n afasia, dificultad f para entender o para expresarse debida a una lesión del cerebro; expressive — afasia expresiva; receptive — afasia receptiva

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