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(pathology) A loss of the ability to express oneself using organized syntax
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(pathology) A condition characterized by abnormally rapid speech in which words, sounds, or syllables are unconsciously omitted, slurred, or distorted.
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(medicine, rare) A speech disorder in which a person is unable to produce a grammatical or intelligible sentence.
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The inability to form sentences by virtue of a brain disorder.
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(pathology) A loss of the ability to write (usually resulting from a brain injury).
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disorder of thought expression in speech and results due to dissolution of logical ordering of trains of thought
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(medicine) Speech delay, a delay in the development or use of the mechanisms that produce speech.
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(neurology) Any speech disorder resulting from cerebral damage.
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A general lack of additional, unprompted content in normal speech, a common symptom of schizophrenia.
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(obsolete) Alternative form of amnesic [Of, pertaining to, or suffering from amnesia.]
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(neurology, neuropsychology) A speech impairment in which the ability to articulate is lost completely.
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(medicine) Inability to speak; loss of one's voice.
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(neurology) The difficulty in finding the right word.
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(pathology) 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.
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(speech therapy) The study of linguistic problems resulting from brain damage.
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(medicine) a person with aphasia
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(speech pathology) A type of aphasia in which the ability to speak is lost.
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(medicine) Loss of voice; the inability to speak.
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(pathology) Condition of being unable to speak.
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A form of echolalia in which a person repeats his own words
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A neurological disorder characterised by slow speech.
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A form of dysarthria characterized by very slow speech.
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(medicine) abnormally slow speech
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(medicine) A form of aphasia characterized by abnormally slow speech
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(medicine, pathology) A disorder where a sufferer is unable to use fluent grammar when speaking or writing, and utterances are almost always ungrammatical.
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A speech defect characterised by repetition of individual words.
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(neurology, neuropsychology) Difficulty in articulating words due to a disturbance in the form or function of the structures that modulate voice into speech; one of the first indicative symptoms of myasthenia gravis, brought about by an autoimmune response to acetylcholine receptors.
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A disorder of the voice and speech typically associated with Parkinson's disease
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A dysfluent phrase or utterance.
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A language disorder that affects a person's ability to write.
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difficulty in talking due to a structural abnormality
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Difficulty in expressing ideas in speech.
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An inability to learn how to spell
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A speech impediment characterized by stammering or stuttering usually resulting from emotional or psychological causes.
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dyslexic with regard to the sounds of written words
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(medicine) A difficulty in producing vocal sounds.
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A person who has dysphonia.
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A speech defect characterised by an inability to put words into an intelligible order
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A disorder in which one or more of the prosodic functions of speech are compromised or eliminated completely.
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(clinical psychology) The immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another.
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Senseless repetition of sounds or re-echoing of words.
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(psychiatry) Any of a group of automatic imitative actions performed without explicit awareness of the individual, including echolalia, echopraxia, echographia and so forth.
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Automatic speech; verbalization that occurs without conscious effort by the individual, such as repetitions and filler words.
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Alternative form of embolalia [Automatic speech; verbalization that occurs without conscious effort by the individual, such as repetitions and filler words.]
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Synonym of Broca's aphasia
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(medicine, psychology, neurology) An extremely rare disorder, which may be temporary or permanent, in which a person who has suffered a stroke or other brain trauma recovers but subsequently speaks with a seemingly foreign accent.
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Exhibiting or relating to glossolalia.
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Relating to, or exhibiting, glossolalia.
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(psychiatry) A behavioural condition characterised by an intense desire to write, associated with changes in the temporal lobes due to epilepsy or chemical changes.
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One who suffers from hypergraphia.
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(neuropsychology) The precocious ability to read single words at a very early age.
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Excessively nasal speech caused by increased airflow through the nose.
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Reduced articulation in speech.
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A fluent aphasia in which the patient's speech is incomprehensible but appears to make sense to the patient.
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Alternative form of jargon aphasia [A fluent aphasia in which the patient's speech is incomprehensible but appears to make sense to the patient.]
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(medicine) A form of stammering characterized by confusion in the use of the labial consonants.
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An impairment of speech arising from spasmodic action of the muscles.
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(obsolete, rare) Synonym of motor aphasia
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(medicine) Tendency to repeat words or syllables.
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(pathology) logopenic progressive aphasia
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(humorous) Dyslexia; proneness to metathesis in reading, writing, or speech due to (real or imagined) dyslexia.
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Relating to metamemory
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A difficulty in pronouncing certain letters or syllables.
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(pathology) A type of aphasia where the sufferer is only able to speak a single word or sentence.
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(pathology) impairment of the ability to speak and write, due to a lesion in the insula and surrounding operculum including Broca's motor speech area. (The patient understands written and spoken words but has difficulty uttering the words.)
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The tendency, of some psychotics, to talk using new or meaningless words
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(pathology) a condition in which a person says, or writes, fewer words than might normally be expected, given his/her personality, education, and the specific circumstances
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A writing disorder characterised by the repetition of syllables, words or phrases.
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(clinical psychology) A complex tic comprising the repetition or echoing of one's own spoken words, which may sound like stuttering.
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Of or relating to palilalia.
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Alternative form of palinacousis [An auditory form of perseveration: continuing to hear a sound after the physical noise has disappeared.]
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A language disorder in which the patient writes one word in place of another.
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Disturbance of the faculty of speech.
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(pathology) A language disorder in which the words or syllables of a text being read are transposed into meaningless combinations
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(medicine) Verbal paraphasia, an aspect of aphasia, where the patient speaks a word different from the one they intended to say.
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(pathology) A symptom of aphasia in which the sufferer substitutes a spoken word different from the one intended
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(medicine) An abnormal condition or alteration of the voice, as at puberty.
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Alternative form of paraphasia [(pathology) A symptom of aphasia in which the sufferer substitutes a spoken word different from the one intended]
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disordered articulation of speech
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Being or relating to a pseudopalindrome.
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The deliberate production of stuttering speech, sometimes used in therapy to teach a patient to control a stutter.
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(pathology) inability to understand written, spoken, or tactile speech symbols, due to disease of the auditory and visual word centers, as in word blindness
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(pathology) Any mental or bodily malfunction that makes expressing oneself by speech difficult.
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A tendency, associated with word blindness, to twist or invert certain similar letters (such as b and d) when reading.
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(very rare) Synonym of tachylalia
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(medicine) rapid speech, often having erratic rhythm and grammar and mixed with irrelevant words.
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(grammar) Synonym of venitive
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An obsessive repetition of meaningless words and phrases, especially as a symptom of mental illness.
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(medicine, pathology) A type of aphasia traditionally associated with neurological damage to Wernicke's area in the brain; the patient speaks with normal grammar, syntax, and intonation, but may use the wrong words or insert non-existent words.
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A mild speech disorder characterised by a changed accent or intonation
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Obsolete form of egophony. [(medicine) A bleating sound sometimes observed in patients with various lung conditions]
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