English > aphasia: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | inability to use or understand language / language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion. |
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| Narrower | Wernicke's aphasia, fluent aphasia, receptive aphasia, sensory aphasia, impressive aphasia | aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words |
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| auditory aphasia, acoustic aphasia, word deafness | An impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss |
| conduction aphasia, associative aphasia | aphasia in which the lesion is assumed to be in the association tracts connecting the various language centers in the brain |
| global aphasia, total aphasia | Loss of all ability to communicate |
| motor aphasia, Broca's aphasia, ataxic aphasia, expressive aphasia, nonfluent aphasia | aphasia in which expression by speech or writing is severely impaired |
| nominal aphasia, anomic aphasia, anomia, amnesic aphasia, amnestic aphasia | inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects |
| transcortical aphasia | A general term for aphasia that results from lesions outside of Broca's area or Wernicke's area of the cerebral cortex |
| visual aphasia, alexia, word blindness | inability to perceive written words |
| Broader | brain disorder, encephalopathy, brain disease | Any disorder or disease of the brain |
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| Spanish | afasia |
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| Catalan | afàsia |
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| Adjectives | aphasic | related to or affected by aphasia |
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| aphasic | unable to speak because of a brain lesion |
