Definition of Amnesic aphasia

1. Noun. Inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects.

Exact synonyms: Amnestic Aphasia, Anomia, Anomic Aphasia, Nominal Aphasia
Generic synonyms: Aphasia

Medical Definition of Amnesic aphasia

1. An aphasia in which the principal deficit is difficulty in naming persons and objects seen, heard, or felt; due to lesions in various portions of the language area. Synonym: amnestic aphasia, amnesic aphasia, anomia, anomic aphasia. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Amnesic Aphasia

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amnesic aphasia (current term)
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Literary usage of Amnesic aphasia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1902)
"amnesic aphasia and paraphasia well marked. May 28—Is able to walk out of ... Well-marked amnesic aphasia. Four or five days later the delirium passed away; ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"amnesic aphasia.—Pitres has given the most precise definition of the term "amnesic aphasia": Any patient who comprehends that which one says, ..."

3. Handbook of the Diseases of the Nervous System by James Ross (1885)
"SENSORY APHASIA (amnesic aphasia). The purest examples of sensory aphasia consist of the affections known as word-blindness and word-deafness. ..."

4. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Austin Flint (1888)
"The inability to express ideas in writing is called agraphia, and this is usually an indication of the condition known as amnesic aphasia, in which it is ..."

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