aphasia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a disorder caused by damage to language areas of the brain that impairs speaking, understanding, reading, or writing

   After the stroke, speech therapy helped him communicate despite aphasia.

Borrowed from French aphasie, formed from Greek aphasia ("speechlessness"), from a- ("without") + phasis ("speech"). The modern neurological term was introduced in the nineteenth century for acquired impairment of language.

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