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- noun medicine
Auditory aphasia : a condition in which the patient hears words but cannot understand them
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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.
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869
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Kussmaul later named this abnormal condition word-deafness
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869
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_ The higher impressive central paths are disturbed: _centro-sensory dysphasia and aphasia_, or _word-deafness_.
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869
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