-phasia, -phasic, -phasis, -phasy +
(Greek: talk, speak, say)
tachyphasia
Excessively fast talking.
tonaphasia
1. Loss, through cerebral lesion, of the ability to remember musical tunes.
2. A form of auditory agnosia in which a person has lost the ability to recognize or produce music.
transcortical aphasia
An aphasia in which the unaffected motor and sensory language areas are isolated from the rest of the hemispheric cortex.
This condition is subdivided into transcortical sensory and transcortical motor aphasias.
visual aphasia
A form of receptive aphasia in which there is an inability to understand written language.
Wernicke's aphasia
1. Aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability to understand spoken or written words.
2. The loss of the ability to comprehend language coupled with the production of inappropriate language.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.":
cit-;
clam-;
dic-;
English Words: Origins and Histories;
fa-;
-farious;
glosso-;
glotto-;
lalo-;
linguo-;
locu-;
logo-;
loqu-;
mythico-;
-ology;
ora-;
-phemia;
phon-;
phras-;
Quotes: Language,Part 1;
Quotes: Language, Part 2;
Quotes: Language, Part 3;
serm-;
tongue;
voc-.
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