Diseases

Speech Disorders

Acquired or developmental conditions marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or generate spoken forms of language.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

Acquired or developmental conditions marked by an impaired ability to comprehend or generate spoken forms of language.

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Synonyms

14 entry terms
  • Aprosodia
  • Aprosodic Speech
  • Cluttering
  • Dysglossia
  • Dyslalia
  • Rhinolalia
  • Verbal Fluency Disorders
  • Aprosodias
  • Clutterings
  • Dysglossias
  • Dyslalias
  • Rhinolalias
  • Speech, Aprosodic
  • Verbal Fluency Disorder

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31 allowable subheadings

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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Indexing Annotation

/ther: consider also SPEECH THERAPY; do not confuse with LANGUAGE DISORDERS: read differentiation of SPEECH & LANGUAGE under SPEECH

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Speech Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013064. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013064
  2. Speech Disorders. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_disorder
  3. Speech Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1282114