aphasia

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The University of Arizona has increased its traumatic brain injury therapies to address victims of aphasia, which is often a side effect of TBI that can affect the communications and language understanding of a victim.

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  1. noun Partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, resulting from damage to the brain caused by injury or disease.

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  • During his long illness Ibsen was troubled by aphasia, and he expressed himself painfully, now in broken Norwegian, now in still more broken German. —  Henrik Ibsen
  • Because of stroke-induced aphasia, her father had been able to do nothing but shake his head, roll his eyes, and spit out an occasional “Stupid.” But Connie had perse­vered. —  Paradise Lost
  • Wernicke's aphasia is a disruption of a specific region of the brain by stroke or trauma. —  Asimov'sSF,Feb2004
  • You lose a bigger piece of your brain and they don't call it Wernicke's aphasia, they call it something else. —  Asimov'sSF,Feb2004
  • In the U.S., more than one million people are stroke survivors with aphasia, and, more than 200,000 people acquire aphasia each year. —  California Chronicle
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  1. Greek, from aphatos, speechless : a-, not; see a-1 + phatos, spoken, speakable (from phanai, to speak; see -phasia).

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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀφασία, speechlessness, from ἄφατος, not uttered, from ἀ- privative + φατός, uttered, spoken, verbal adjective of φάναι = Latin fari, speak, say: see fable, fate, euphemism, etc.
 

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