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Definition of Dysphasia
1. Noun. An impairment of language (especially speech production) that is usually due to brain damage.
Definition of Dysphasia
1. Noun. (pathology) loss of or deficiency in the power to use or understand language as a result of injury or disease of the brain ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dysphasia
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Medical Definition of Dysphasia
1. Language disorder. Inability to speak words which one has in mind or to think of correct words, or inability to understand spoken or written words. Symptom common to tumours of the dominant cerebral hemisphere, particularly the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes. (16 Dec 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dysphasia
Literary usage of Dysphasia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mind of the Child: Observations Concerning the Mental Development of the by William T. Preyer (1889)
"dysphasia.—In the child that can use only a small number of words, the cerebral
and psychical act through which he connects these with his ideas and gives ..."
2. The Mind of the Child: Observations Concerning the Mental Development of the by William T. Preyer (1889)
"dysphasia.—In the child that can use only a small number of words, the cerebral
and psychical act through which he connects these with his ideas and gives ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"rather than paralysis, of the tongue and vocal cords, and periodic attacks of
dysphagia and dysphasia. Finally the cardiac action became insufficient. ..."
4. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"The term dysphasia is sometimes used interchangeably with aphasia, although
literally aphasia means totally affected and dysphasia means partially affected. ..."
5. Transactions by American Orthopaedic Association (1903)
"On the Radioscopic Anatomy and Clinical Appearances of Chondral dysphasia of the
Bones with Multiple Cartilaginous Exostoses. ..."
6. Mental Development in the Child and the Race: Methods and Processes by James Mark Baldwin (1906)
"... if not equally general recognition, equally happy characterization by the same
author, who calls defects of speech of this general nature dysphasia. ..."
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