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Dysarthria

noun

Impaired articulatory ability resulting from defects in the peripheral motor nerves or in the speech musculature.

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... pseudo-paralysis. The body is at first obese, but rapidly loses flesh, the skin becomes greasy and damp, owing to hypersecretion of the sebaceous and sudoriparous glands, and soils the garments. Memory becomes enfeebled, speech uncertain and defective (dysarthria), the association of ideas sluggish, sensibility blunted, perception confused, judgment erroneous, and every species of regular and continued application impossible. The earlier hallucinations reappear, but in a less vivid form and only at long intervals; then ...

— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

Words linked to "Dysarthria" : speech defect, defect of speech, speech disorder