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Abstract
Conditions characterized by deficiencies of comprehension or expression of written and spoken forms of language. These include acquired and developmental disorders.
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5 entry terms
- Language Disorder
- Acquired Language Disorders
- Language Disorders, Acquired
- Acquired Language Disorder
- Language Disorder, 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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/ther: consider also LANGUAGE THERAPY; do not confuse with SPEECH DISORDERS: read differentiation of LANGUAGE & SPEECH under LANGUAGE; do not confuse with LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS: see note there
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1967
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- Language (1966)
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- National Library of Medicine. Language Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007806. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007806
- Language Disorders. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_disorder
- Language Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10469820