Word

aphasia, n.

inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
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aphasia

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

aphasic aphasic

semantic pointers

hypernym

brain disorder, encephalopathy, brain disease

hyponym

auditory aphasia, acoustic aphasia, word deafness conduction aphasia, associative aphasia global aphasia, total aphasia motor aphasia, Broca's aphasia, ataxic aphasia, expressive aphasia, nonfluent aphasia nominal aphasia, anomic aphasia, anomia, amnesic aphasia, amnestic aphasia transcortical aphasia visual aphasia, alexia, word blindness Wernicke's aphasia, fluent aphasia, receptive aphasia, sensory aphasia, impressive aphasia