aphemia

[ uh-fee-mee-uh ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.

1. a type of aphasia characterized by the inability to express ideas in spoken words.

Word History and Origins

Origin of aphemia¹

1860–65; < Greek a- a- ⁶ + phḗm ( ē ) speech + -ia -ia

Example Sentences

Aphemia, a-fēm′i-a, n. loss of speech caused by difficulty in articulation due to paralysis.

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He has suffered a concussion over the third frontal convolution, resulting in an aphasia—aphemia we are sure of, and doubtless also agraphia——" "Hold on!

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This blow has produced the aphemia.

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Now, he knows he can talk because we all know he can, but no one knows it at present because he can't—and that's aphemia.

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Centro-motor Dysphasia and Aphasia, Aphemia, Asymbolia, Asemia.—Children have not yet learned, or have hardly learned, the use of language, although their intelligence is already sufficient.

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