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Aphasia

noun

Inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion.

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"Aphasia" Quotes from Famous Books

... did not talk about at all, left by their mere marked absence an impression on White's mind. And occasionally after Benham had been talking for a long time there would be an occasional aphasia, such as is often apparent in the speech of men who restrain themselves from betraying a preoccupation. He would say nothing about Amanda or about women in general, he was reluctant to speak of Prothero, and another peculiarity was that he referred perhaps half a dozen times or more ...

— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells

... telephone for anything you have to say to anybody. And the other woman, let me tell you, has nothing to do with this case. I'll tell you now, before your curiosity makes you make a fool of yourself—she's been hunted for high and low, because she's had aphasia—forgets who she is, and all that, every once in a while, and her people have been offering a reward. Just happened to make a double haul, that's all. But you don't get in on the first one. Now are you satisfied?" Brencherly ...

— Out of the Ashes • Ethel Watts Mumford

Words linked to "Aphasia" : brain disease, brain disorder, aphasic, amnesic aphasia, anomia, word deafness, encephalopathy, alexia, word blindness