aphasia
English Thesaurus
1. inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | brain disease, brain disorder, encephalopathy, |
| definition | : | any disorder or disease of the brain (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | acoustic aphasia, auditory aphasia, word deafness, |
| definition | : | an impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | associative aphasia, conduction aphasia, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | global aphasia, total aphasia, |
| definition | : | loss of all ability to communicate (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | ataxic aphasia, broca's aphasia, expressive aphasia, motor aphasia, nonfluent aphasia, |
| definition | : | aphasia in which expression by speech or writing is severely impaired (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | amnesic aphasia, amnestic aphasia, anomia, anomic aphasia, nominal aphasia, |
| definition | : | inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | transcortical aphasia, |
| definition | : | a general term for aphasia that results from lesions outside of Broca's area or Wernicke's area of the cerebral cortex (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | alexia, visual aphasia, word blindness, |
| definition | : | inability to perceive written words (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | fluent aphasia, impressive aphasia, receptive aphasia, sensory aphasia, wernicke's aphasia, |
| definition | : | aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words (noun.state) |
| derivation | : | aphasic, |
| definition | : | unable to speak because of a brain lesion (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | aphasic, |
| definition | : | related to or affected by aphasia (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | aphasic, |
| definition | : | unable to speak because of a brain lesion (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | aphasic, |
| definition | : | related to or affected by aphasia (adj.pert) |
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