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Definition of Auditory aphasia
1. Noun. An impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss.
Medical Definition of Auditory aphasia
1. An impairment in comprehension of the auditory forms of language and communication, including the ability to write from dictation in the presence of normal hearing. Spontaneous speech, reading, and writing are not affected. Synonym: acoustic aphasia, word deafness. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auditory Aphasia
Literary usage of Auditory aphasia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"auditory aphasia.—Tbc auditory speech centre is situated in the posterior part
... The subject of auditory aphasia may be compared to an individual who is ..."
2. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"... which occupy these locations or are in such a position as to cut the pathways
immediately related thereto give rise to word-deafness— auditory aphasia, ..."
3. Psychology; an Introductory Study of the Structure and Function of Human by James Rowland Angell (1908)
"But it may be brought about—and often is—as a secondary consequence of auditory
aphasia. If, when we speak, we are in the habit of having in our minds just ..."
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