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aphemia
[ uh-fee-mee-uh ]
noun
Medicine/Medical.
- a type of aphasia characterized by the inability to express ideas in spoken words.
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Aphemia, a-fŧm′i-a, n. loss of speech caused by difficulty in articulation due to paralysis.
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He has suffered a concussion over the third frontal convolution, resulting in an aphasia—aphemia we are sure of, and doubtless also agraphia——" "Hold on!
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This blow has produced the aphemia.
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Now, he knows he can talk because we all know he can, but no one knows it at present because he can't—and that's aphemia.
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Centro-motor Dysphasia and Aphasia, Aphemia, Asymbolia, Asemia.—Children have not yet learned, or have hardly learned, the use of language, although their intelligence is already sufficient.
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