aphasic

APHRODISIA mi ural a. gibberish a., aphasia with utterance of meaningle phrases. graphomotor a., aphasia in which the patient cannot expre himself in writing. Grashey’s a., aphasia due to le ened duration of sensory impre ions, causing disturbance of perception and a ociation, without lack of function of the centers or conductivity of the tracts. It is seen in acute diseases and concu ion of the brain. intellectual a. Same as fruc a. jargon a., aphasia in which several words are run together as one. Ku maul’s a., voluntary refraining from speech, as in the insane. lenticular a. Same as commi ural a. &. leth’ica. Same as a mnemonic a. mixed a., combined motor and sensory aphasia. Motora. Same as aluxica. optic a., inability to find the name for objects seen, due to interruption of the connection between the speech and visual centers. parieto-occipital a., combined alexia and apraxia. pictorial a., cortical aphasia, so called because the cortex is the region containing the centers for images of words. Pp8ychosensory a., inability to understand language, spoken, written, or expre ed in any way. puerperal a., aphasia occurring during pregnancy or the puerperium. sensory &., inability to understand the meaning of written or spoken words, due to disease of the auditory and visual word-centers. subcortical a., aphasia due toa lesion interrupting impulses toward the afferent tracts that proceed to the auditory speech-center. temporoparietal a +, cortical sensory aphasia. , combined motor and sensory aphasia. trans cortical &., aphasia caused by a lesion of a pathway between the speech center and other cortical centers. true &., aphasia due to lesion of any one of the speech centers; called also intellectual a. visual a., inability to comprehend written words. Wernicke’s a., cortical sensory