Medical Definition of Lalling
1. A form of stammering in which the speech is almost unintelligible. Origin: G. Laleo, to chatter (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lalling
Literary usage of Lalling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kantner's Illustrated Book of Objects, Containing Over 2000 Fine Engravings by Washington C. Kantner (1892)
"Barouche, A four-wheeled carriage, with a lalling top, a seat on the outside for
the driver, and two seats on the inside. Barrel, A round, bulgy vessel or ..."
2. The Diagnosis of nervous diseases by James Purves-Stewart (1908)
"The condition known as lalling consists in a want of precision in the ...
More serious varieties of lalling are where the letter L is replaced by some other ..."
3. A Treatise on Aphasia and Other Speech Defects by H. Charlton Bastian (1898)
"Stammering associated with lalling is indeed often enough found in imbeciles;
... lalling in its most typical form may, however, be met with temporarily in ..."
4. Pediatrics (1903)
"The term "lalling" is sometimes used to include all the above defects. ...
While marked lalling in a child of six years or more is nearly always associated ..."
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