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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Translations

afasi

Aphasie

αφασία

afasia

afasia

aphasie

málstol

afasia

afasie

afasi

afasia

афазия

aphasia

[æˈfeɪzɪə] N → afasia f

aphasia

[əˈfeɪziə] (MEDICINE) n → aphasie f

aphasia

n → Aphasie f

a·pha·si·a

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

amnestic ___ → ___ amnéstica;

ataxic ___ → ___ atáxica.

aphasia

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