-phasia, -phasic, -phasis, -phasy +

A physical disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves a person unable to correctly formulate a statement or to express oneself in an organized manner.

1. Impairment in the understanding of auditory language and communication.

Sounds are heard but they convey no meaning.

2. An impairment in comprehension of the auditory forms of language and communication, including the ability to write from dictation in the presence of normal hearing.

Spontaneous speech, reading, and writing are not affected.

Abnormally rapid speech in which words are imperfectly spoken or dropped out of a sentence; also agitolalia.

Ungrammatical speech; a form of aphasia, in which the patient forms words into a sentence without regard for grammatical rules of declension, conjugation, comparison of adjectives and adverbs, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, articles, etc.

Incoherent speech.

Incoherent, delirious speech.

An aphasia in which the principal deficit is difficulty in naming people and objects which they have seen, heard, or felt; due to lesions in various portions of the language area.

The inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects.

1. A defect or loss of expression by speech, writing, or signs, or of comprehending spoken or written language, due to injury or disease of the brain centers.
2. One in a group of speech disorders in which there is a defect or loss of the power of expression by speech, writing, or signs, or a defect or loss of the power of comprehension of spoken or written language.

Relating to or suffering from aphasia.

Relating to, or suffering from aphasia (a defect or loss of the ability to speak or write, or the inability to understand spoken or written language).

The loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words; with the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved.

It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

1. Mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned.
2. The rhetorical device of alluding to something by denying that it will be mentioned, as in "I won't bring up the question of age now that you are seventy."
3. The denial of someone's intention to talk about a subject that is at the same time named or insinuated; such as, “I shall not mention Caesar's avarice, nor his cunning, nor his morality.”

Relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not; such as, "God is unknowable".

A form of aphasia in which the patient understands spoken and written words, is aware of his deficit, and can speak and write, but skips or repeats words, or substitutes one word for another (paraphasia).

Word repetition is severely impaired.