Term

aphasia

A disorder of speech after damage to the brain: a person loses the ability to find or understand words.

Death and Its Mystery: Before Death, Camille Flammarion

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• Death and Its Mystery: Before Death, Camille Flammarion
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, Oliver Sacks

  A disorder of speech after brain damage: a person understands or produces words less well, although their hearing and voice are intact.

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