aphasia

(§,-fa'zl-ah) [G. speechle ne .] weakening forms—reading, or lo of the faculty of language in any of its ciation of the written, printed, or spoken word independent of disease of the vocal organs or of the mind, amne's ic a., aphemia. as so'ciative a., conduction a. atax'ic a., motor a. au'ditory a., Broca. conduc'tion a., a form of a. in which the subject can speak and write in a way, but skips or repeats words or substitutes one word for another, the lesion being in the a ociation tracts connecting the various language centers, frontocor'tical a., motor aphasia, frontolentic'ulai a., mixed a., conduction a. jar'gon a., the n,mning,together of a number of words as one, the syllables being articulated, but wrongly accented, lentic'ular a., conduction a., mixed a. mixed a., aphemia, alexia, and mind-blindne , mo'tor a., any of the varieties of a. in which the power of expre ion by writing, speaking, or signs is lost, occip'ital a., alexia and apraxia. op'tic a., anomia, inability to name an object seen although the patient may comprehend what it is. par i"eto-occip'ital a., alexia and apraxia. sen's ory a., lo of the power to comprehend written (or printed) or spoken words, gestures, or signs; • it includes word blindne , sign-blindne , apraxia, and word deafne , subcor'tical mo'tor a., anarthria; lo of power of articulate speech, the ability to read, write, and understand spoken phrases being retained. tem"poropari'etal a., Wernicke's a. auditory and optic a., anomia. vis'ual a., word blindne . Wer'nicke's a., see Wernicke.