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aphasia

/əˈfeɪzɪə/

aphasia noun: a partial or total loss of language skills due to brain damage. Usually, damage to the left perisylvian region, including Broca's area and Wernicke's area, causes aphasia.

Noun

aphasia (countable and uncountable, plural aphasias)

  1. A partial or total loss of language skills due to brain damage. Usually, damage to the left perisylvian region, including Broca's area and Wernicke's area, causes aphasia.
    • The very disease aphasia is to most of us a new one; and we venture to say that even yet no one can give a satisfactory definition of Trousseau's new term.1865, “Discussions upon Aphasia”, in Medical and Surgical Reporter, volume 8, page 197
    • Of one form of aphasia we have an accurate description by Van Swieten, in his chapter on apoplexia:―"Vidi plures, qui ab apoplexiâ curati omnibus functionibus cerebri recte valebant, nisi quod deesset, hoc unicum, quod non possent vera rebus designandis vocabula invenire."1865, J. T. Banks, “On the Loss of Language in Cerebral Disease”, in Dublin quarterly journal of medical science, volume 39, page 63

aphasia meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Vietnamese

aphasia in Tamil

பேச்சிழப்பு, அபேசியா, பேச்சின்மை, மூங்கையம், மூளைக்கோளாறினால் ஏற்படும் பேச்சிழப்பு

aphasia in Urdu

بے رَبط گُفتَگُو, فَتُور نَطق

aphasia in Vietnamese

pathological speech disorder
á khẩu

Forms of aphasia

pluralaphasias
alternative form (dated)aphasy

Plural of aphasia: aphasias

Origin of aphasia

From French aphasie, from Ancient Greek ἀφασία (aphasía), from ἄφατος (áphatos, “speechless”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + φάσις (phásis, “speech”). Equivalent to a- + -phasia.

Words formed from aphasia

Words that rhyme with aphasia

Questions about aphasia

What does aphasia mean?
Aphasia means a partial or total loss of language skills due to brain damage. Usually, damage to the left perisylvian region, including Broca's area and Wernicke's area, causes aphasia.
What is aphasia in Tamil?
Aphasia in Tamil is பேச்சிழப்பு, அபேசியா, பேச்சின்மை. See Aphasia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is aphasia?
Aphasia is a noun.
How do you pronounce aphasia?
Aphasia is pronounced /əˈfeɪzɪə/.
What is the plural of aphasia?
The plural of aphasia is aphasias.

Words near aphasia in the dictionary

  1. aphantic
  2. aphantochilid
  3. aphantochilids
  4. aphants
  5. apharyngeate
  6. aphasia
  7. aphasiac
  8. aphasiacs
  9. aphasias
  10. aphasic
  11. aphasically

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aphasia (page history and authors); aphasia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aphasia (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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