receptive aphasia
receptive aphasia · receptive aphasias
Inability to understand written, spoken, or tactile speech symbols, due to disease of…Inability to understand written, spoken, or tactile speech symbols, due to disease of the auditory and visual word centers, as in word blindness
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)Inability to understand written, spoken, or tactile speech symbols, due to disease of the auditory and visual word centers, as in word blindness
More definitions
- aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words
Forms
plural: receptive aphasias| Singular | receptive aphasia |
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Synonyms
4 synonymsClose in meaning
- aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words:Wernicke-ap-s aphasiafluent aphasiasensory aphasiaimpressive aphasia
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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