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.

Common collocations

• fluent aphasia Adjective + noun

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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