Definition of Receptive aphasia

1. Noun. Aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words.


Medical Definition of Receptive aphasia

1. Aphasia in which there is impairment in the comprehension of spoken and written words, associated with effortless, articulated, but paraphrasic, speech and writing; malformed words, substitute words, and enologisms are charcteristic. When severe, and speech is incomprehensible, it is called jargon aphasia. The patient often appears unaware of his deficit. Synonym: fluent aphasia, impressive aphasia, posterior aphasia, psychosensory aphasia, receptive aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Receptive Aphasia

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