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broca's aphasia
a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Broca's area of the brain, characterized by misarticulated speech and lack of grammatical morphemes. -
auditory aphasia
aphasia in which there is no comprehension of spoken words; word deafness. -
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wernicke's aphasia
a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Wernicke's area of the brain and characterized by grammatical but more or less meaningless speech and an apparent inability to comprehend speech. -
agnosia
loss or diminution of the power to recognize familiar objects or people, usually as a result of brain damage -
agrammatism
a type of aphasia, usually caused by cerebral disease, characterized by an inability to construct a grammatical or intelligible sentence while retaining the ability to speak single words.