Medicina: Neuropsicologia cognitiva
| English |
| aphasia |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun
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| Grammatical label |
countable
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| Definition |
Acquired disorder of symbolic language processing.
Acquired disorder of symbolic language processing. Aphasia is characterized by a combination of naming, fluency, comprehension, and repetition deficits that are accompanied by reading and writing impairments.
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| Definition source |
Loring W.D. 1999
Loring W.D. 1999
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| Context |
In a fair number of patients presenting with mild or questionable language disorders, however, a decision that rules out aphasia should be made before proceeding to other questions. On the surface, it would seem that well-validated tests of a more comprehensive nature, or even of a screening type, would be sufficient to determine whether aphasia is present.
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| Context source |
Sarno 1991
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| Subject field |
Aphasia
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| Related concept |
Dysphasia, Etiology, Language, Aphasic syndromes, Aphasic deficits
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| it |
Afasia
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| Reliability code |
3
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| Note |
Aphasia and Dysphasia refer to two different disorders but they are currently used as synonyms.
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