APHASIA

In medical jurisprudence. Lo of the faculty or power of articulate speech; a condition 1n which the patient, while retaining intelUgence and understanding and with the organs of speech unimpaired, is unable to utter articulate words, or unable to vocalize the particular word which is in bis mind and which be wishes to use, or utters words different from those be believes himself to be speaking, or (in "sensory aphasia") is unable to understand spoken or written language. The seat of the disease is ln the brain, but it is not a form of insanity. APHONIA, In medical jurisprudence. Lo of the power of articulate speech in consequence of morbid conditions of some of the vocal •organs. It may be incomplete, 1n wbkb case the patient can whisper. It ls to be distinguished from congenital dumbne , and from temporary lo of voice through extreme hoarsene or minor affections of tl:!.e vocal cords, as also from aphasia, the _latter being a disease of the brain without impairment of the organs of speech. Apice■ juris non aunt jura., [juit.] Extremities, or mere subtleties of law, are not rules of law, [are not law.] Co. Litt. 304b; 10 Coke, · 126; Wing. Max. 19, max. 14; Broom, Max. 188. [s. 81]