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Definition of Global aphasia
1. Noun. Loss of all ability to communicate.
Medical Definition of Global aphasia
1. In which all aspects of speech and communication are severely impaired. at best, patients can understand or speak only a few words or phrases; they cannot read or write. Synonym: mixed aphasia, total aphasia. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Global Aphasia
Literary usage of Global aphasia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1918)
"The syndrome of the region of the supramarginal gyrus comprises a global aphasia
in which anarthria and aphasia are associated. All the elements of speech ..."
2. Diseases of the nervous system by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"A frequent type is a complete or global aphasia in which the entire brain speech
mechanisms are wiped out. These are the forms seen following severi' ..."
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