aphasia
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- n inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
- Semantic aphasia on the right, semantic aphasia on the left.
- But he had a hopeful note: anomic aphasia is much less common now that middle-ear infections are so readily controlled by sulfas and antibiotics.
- Semantic aphasia is that numbness of ear, mind and heartthat tone deafness to the very meaning of languagewhich results from the habitual and prolonged abuse of words.