sensory aphasia

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Noun1.sensory aphasia - aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words
fluent aphasia, impressive aphasia, receptive aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia
aphasia - inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
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sensory aphasia. Middle * Lateral frontal and Motor: Contralateral cerebral parietal lobes.
Understanding stroke
LHS patients had the greater number of communication problems with 23.1% and 27.8% having motor or sensory aphasia and global aphasia, respectively.
Prognostic Factors of Functional Recovery from Left Hemispheric Stroke
The authors found that the aphasic patients' performance (but not that of left brain-damaged patients without aphasia) was impaired in all functions investigated also when patients with severe comprehension deficits (global, Wernicke's and transcortical sensory aphasia) were excluded from the sample.
Different Cognitive Profiles of Patients with Severe Aphasia
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