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Aphasia

noun

Inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion.

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... who has before now been called in (I am proud to say) by such great persons as Mr. Hichens, Mr. Churchill, and Mr. Roosevelt when their Muses have been out of sorts. Indeed, he is that doctor who operated for aphasia upon the Muse of the late Mr. Rossetti just before his demise. His fees are high, but I was willing enough to pay, and certainly would never have consented—as have, I regret to say, so many of my unworthy contemporaries—to employ a veterinary ...

— On Nothing & Kindred Subjects • Hilaire Belloc

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Words linked to "Aphasia" : encephalopathy, brain disorder, aphasic, word blindness, word deafness, alexia, ataxic aphasia, nonfluent aphasia, brain disease, anomia