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A receptive visual aphasia characterized by the loss of a previously possessed ability to comprehend the meaning or significance of handwritten words, despite intact vision. This condition may be associated with posterior cerebral artery infarction (INFARCTION, POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY) and other BRAIN DISEASES.
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- Dyslexia, Acquired
- Reading Disability, Acquired
- Word Blindness, Acquired
- Acquired Reading Disabilities
- Acquired Reading Disability
- Acquired Word Blindness
- Acquired Word Blindnesses
- Blindness, Acquired Word
- Blindnesses, Acquired Word
- Disabilities, Acquired Reading
- Disability, Acquired Reading
- Reading Disabilities, Acquired
- Word Blindnesses, Acquired
- Acquired Global Dyslexia
- Acquired Spelling Dyslexia
- Alexia, Acquired
- Acquired Alexia
- Dyslexia, Acquired Global
- Dyslexia, Acquired Spelling
- Global Dyslexia, Acquired
- Spelling Dyslexia, Acquired
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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1977(1963)
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- National Library of Medicine. Acquired Dyslexia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004411. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004411
- Acquired Dyslexia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1246050