APHASIA
Definition:
- [noun] inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
Synonyms:
Related Words:
- auditory aphasia, acoustic aphasia, word deafness
- conduction aphasia, associative aphasia
- global aphasia, total aphasia
- motor aphasia, Broca's aphasia, ataxic aphasia, expressive aphasia, nonfluent aphasia
- nominal aphasia, anomic aphasia, anomia, amnesic aphasia, amnestic aphasia
- transcortical aphasia
- visual aphasia, alexia, word blindness
- Wernicke's aphasia, fluent aphasia, receptive aphasia, sensory aphasia, impressive aphasia
