The language disorder called aphasia usually affects both the understanding and production of spoken and written language. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
She actually had a condition known as aphasia, which is a sort of a big term. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2005] Reference
It's a condition called aphasia, a sign of Alzheimer's disease. From Wordnik.com. [WPTV Top Stories] Reference
"In all honesty, the way he has dealt with the aphasia is his greatest triumph," said Gerri Monaghan. From Wordnik.com. [Home - BostonHerald.com] Reference
The disease called aphasia, in which people begin by saying tea when they mean coffee, commonly ends in their silence. From Wordnik.com. [A Miscellany of Men] Reference
This condition is called aphasia and is a common result of a stroke, explains Dr Peter Coleman of the Stroke Association. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
The condition is known as aphasia, which affects older persons more often than younger, including 12,000 Swedes every year. From Wordnik.com. [India eNews] Reference
He uses the word "aphasia" and I pride myself on knowing what it means. From Wordnik.com. [lazarus Diary Entry] Reference
Oh, is it REALLY "something like what happens to language in the kind of aphasia associated with damage to Wernicke's area"?. From Wordnik.com. [Downright mawk] Reference
I affected him with a kind of aphasia, erasing the words he wanted from his brain. From Wordnik.com. [Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley] Reference
'hypnotic suggestion' in every popular preacher, and 'aphasia' in any friend who forgets names and faces!. From Wordnik.com. [The Sexual Life of the Child] Reference
He had primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia. From Wordnik.com. [Neurologist Fred Plum, expert on comatose patients and advocate for right to die, dies at 86] Reference
Again, I am not responsible for someone else's aphasia. From Wordnik.com. ["Earthquake Warning Has Oregon on Its Toes."] Reference
I am not yet ready to retire the phrase "moral aphasia.". From Wordnik.com. ['Mother Country': An Exchange] Reference
I've heard other linguists refer to it as "jargon aphasia.". From Wordnik.com. [Speaking in tongues, now, with brain imaging.] Reference
The name of my newly acquired condition was expressive aphasia. From Wordnik.com. [In the Land of Aphasia] Reference
In retrospect the aphasia seems part of a more pervasive syndrome. From Wordnik.com. [Home Alone] Reference
A bellowing bandleader sounds like "an ogre at the onset of aphasia.". From Wordnik.com. [The Man of Feeling] Reference
Sounded like she had a condition that in neurosurgery we call aphasia. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2005] Reference
“Broca aphasia: pathological and clinical”, Neurology, 28: 311-24. From Wordnik.com. [Innateness and Language] Reference
Verbal aphasia is when there ` s not the deep emotions behind the words. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2008] Reference
In the American Scholar, novelist Paul West describes life with aphasia. From Wordnik.com. [Gerry Canavan] Reference
My first stroke gave me aphasia, the inability to either speak or write. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL] Reference
Then the computer awoke from its aphasia, offering up the missing figures. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
REAGAN: Well, sort of aphasia sets in where you can't, they can't make sense. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2004] Reference
How can I be eloquent most of the time and then suddenly have a sort of aphasia. From Wordnik.com. [AAN: auto-immune disease of the brain and the effect on memory & the Brain Board; memory, regression & emotions] Reference
In terms of the lies, she also may have something of what we call verbal aphasia. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2008] Reference
Finally, in semantic aphasia, the full significance of words and phrases is lost. From Wordnik.com. [Cities In Flight]
Back when I was training dogs, maybe 50% of them had some degree of receptive aphasia. From Wordnik.com. [When Barking Dogs Don't] Reference
He was stricken with aphasia, unable to see, speak, or care for himself in his late 50s. From Wordnik.com. [Blighted Christmas - Give the truth this year] Reference
In aphasia there is, however, no excessive muscular tension or cramp of the speech muscles. From Wordnik.com. [Stammering, Its Cause and Cure] Reference
Once in a while I experience something akin to critical aphasia, when words suddenly lose meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-09-01] Reference
I am not arguing that McCain's geographical aphasia is quid pro quo proof of his foreign policy incompetence. From Wordnik.com. [Mitchell Bard: The Press Talks About an Obama Bias, All While Giving McCain Special Treatment] Reference
In our age, when mental and nervous diseases are so rapidly increasing, aphasia victims are becoming more common. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
Several cases with partial or complete hemiplegia, hemiplegia and aphasia, or facial paralysis are recorded below. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
There are those -- the majority in power -- who think we suffer from aphasia; they give us a salute, and quickly move on. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: Does the Ivy League Turn You Into a Moron? Walter Kirn Critiques Princeton in "Lost in the Meritocracy"] Reference
Pugilistic Discussion Syndrome In this curious form of aphasia, the subject is unable to distinguish between a discussion and a contest. From Wordnik.com. [Narcissistic Blog Disorder and Other Conditions of Online Kookery] Reference
Stuttering in its simpler forms is usually connected with the period of childhood, while aphasia is often connected with old age or injury. From Wordnik.com. [Stammering, Its Cause and Cure] Reference
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