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dystextia

dystextia noun: disordered or garbled text messaging associated with medical events like a stroke.

Noun

dystextia (countable and uncountable, plural dystextias)

  1. Disordered or garbled text messaging associated with medical events like a stroke.
    • Stroke recognition remains a barrier to care in cerebrovascular disease. Despite an increasing reliance on digital communication, the clinical utility of deficits relating to technology remains unexplored. Dystextia and dystypia, terms used to refer to impairments in texting and typing...2019, Amit K. Sharma, Sebastian Fridman, Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Luciano A. Sposato, “Dystextia and dystypia as modern stroke symptoms: A case series and literature review”, in Clinical Neurology and...

Forms of dystextia

pluraldystextias

Origin of dystextia

From dys- + text + -ia.

Questions about dystextia

What does dystextia mean?
Dystextia means disordered or garbled text messaging associated with medical events like a stroke.
What part of speech is dystextia?
Dystextia is a noun.
What is the plural of dystextia?
The plural of dystextia is dystextias.

Words near dystextia in the dictionary

  1. dysteleologist
  2. dysteleologists
  3. dysteleology
  4. Dyster
  5. Dysters
  6. dystextia
  7. dystextias
  8. dysthanasia
  9. dystheism
  10. dystheist
  11. dystheistic

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