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A cognitive disorder marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or express language in its written or spoken form. This condition is caused by diseases which affect the language areas of the dominant hemisphere. Clinical features are used to classify the various subtypes of this condition. General categories include receptive, expressive, and mixed forms of aphasia.
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- Alogia
- Anepia
- Logagnosia
- Logamnesia
- Logasthenia
- Word Deafness
- Alogias
- Anepias
- Deafness, Word
- Logagnosias
- Logamnesias
- Logasthenias
- Aphasia, Acquired
- Aphasia, Ageusic
- Aphasia, Auditory Discriminatory
- Aphasia, Commisural
- Aphasia, Functional
- Aphasia, Global
- Aphasia, Graphomotor
- Aphasia, Intellectual
- Aphasia, Mixed
- Aphasia, Post-Ictal
- Aphasia, Post-Traumatic
- Aphasia, Progressive
- Aphasia, Semantic
- Aphasia, Syntactical
- Dejerine-Lichtheim Phenomenon
- Dysphasia
- Dysphasia, Global
- Lichtheim's Sign
- Acquired Aphasia
- Ageusic Aphasia
- Ageusic Aphasias
- Aphasia, Post Ictal
- Aphasia, Post Traumatic
- Aphasias, Commisural
- Auditory Discriminatory Aphasia
- Auditory Discriminatory Aphasias
- Commisural Aphasia
- Commisural Aphasias
- Dejerine Lichtheim Phenomenon
- Discriminatory Aphasia, Auditory
- Discriminatory Aphasias, Auditory
- Functional Aphasia
- Functional Aphasias
- Global Aphasia
- Global Aphasias
- Global Dysphasia
- Global Dysphasias
- Graphomotor Aphasia
- Graphomotor Aphasias
- Intellectual Aphasia
- Intellectual Aphasias
- Lichtheim Sign
- Lichtheims Sign
- Mixed Aphasia
- Mixed Aphasias
- Phenomenon, Dejerine-Lichtheim
- Post-Ictal Aphasia
- Post-Ictal Aphasias
- Post-Traumatic Aphasia
- Post-Traumatic Aphasias
- Progressive Aphasia
- Progressive Aphasias
- Semantic Aphasia
- Semantic Aphasias
- Sign, Lichtheim's
- Syntactical Aphasia
- Syntactical Aphasias
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general or unspecified; prefer specifics
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1963
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Aphasia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001037. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001037
- Aphasia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia
- Aphasia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2836