What is APHASIA? Definition of APHASIA in Black's Law Dictionary
In medical jurisprudence. Loss of the faculty or power of articulate speech; a condition in which the patient, while retaining intelligence and understanding and with the organs of speech unimpaired, is unable (in "motor aphasia") to utter articulate words, or unable to vocalize the particular word which is in his mind and which he wishes to use, or utters words different from those he believes himself to be speaking, or (in "sensory aphasia" or apraxia) is unable to understand spoken or written language. Sensory aphasia includes word blindness and word deafness, visual and auditory aphasia. Motor aphasia often includes agraphia, or the inability to write words of the desired meaning. The seat of the disease is in the brain, but it is not a form of insanity.
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