Definitions
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- noun medicine
Auditory aphasia : a condition in which the patient hears words but cannot understand them
Etymologies
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word + deafness
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Word-blindness, word-deafness, etc., are terms of different forms of aphasia.
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Word-blindness, word-deafness, etc., are terms of different forms of aphasia.
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Herein this sort of word-blindness agrees fully with the physiological word-deafness of the normal child without speech, whose hearing is good.
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Kussmaul later named this abnormal condition word-deafness
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_ The higher impressive central paths are disturbed: _centro-sensory dysphasia and aphasia_, or _word-deafness_.
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