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aphasy

aphasy is the dated form of aphasia.

Meaning of 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

Questions about aphasy

What is aphasy the dated form of?
Aphasy is the dated form of aphasia.

Words near aphasy in the dictionary

  1. aphasiologist
  2. aphasiologists
  3. aphasiology
  4. aphasmid
  5. aphasmids
  6. aphasy
  7. aphatic
  8. aphatics
  9. Aphebian
  10. aphelandra
  11. aphelandras

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