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Aphasia is a medical condition, not a mood and not a personality. After a stroke, a head injury, or a disease in the language parts of the brain, a person may struggle to speak, to find words, to understand speech, to read, or to write — sometimes one of these, sometimes several together. The person's thinking can still be sharp; the bridge between thought and words is what is damaged. It is not the same as being shy, choosing not to talk, stuttering, or simply not knowing English. Doctors name different kinds depending on whether talking or understanding is more hurt, and speech therapy can help, though recovery is not a promise. Use the word with care: it belongs to a real brain-and-language injury.
組成a- (not) + -phasia (speech), through French aphasie from Ancient Greek. The pieces already say "no speech" — though actually the condition can also hurt understanding, reading, and writing, not only talking.
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- dysphasiashares -phasia (speech); used when language is damaged but not pictured as fully lost
- aphasicthe adjective, or the person: having aphasia
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aphasianoun/əˈfeɪzɪə/
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medicinepathologysciencesA 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.
- The very disease aphasia is to most of us a new one; and we venture to say that even yet no one can give a satisfactory definition of Trousseau's new term.
- Of one form of aphasia we have an accurate description by Van Swieten, in his chapter on apoplexia:―"Vidi plures, qui ab apoplexiâ curati omnibus functionibus cerebri recte valebant, nisi quod deesset, hoc unicum, quod non possent vera rebus designandis vocabula invenire."
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