para-, par-

Mental disorder characterized by the incorrect naming of objects or the inability to name them.

1. Something that is apparently, or seems to be, outside normal sensory channels.
2. Anything that can't be explained, or understood, in terms of normal scientific knowledge; such as, paranormal events or phenomena.

1. A flourish made after a signature.
2. A special flourish at the end of a signature, originally as a precaution against forgery.
3. Etymology: from Middle French paraffe (French paraphe); originally, meaning "paragraph", from Middle Latin paraphus, contraction of paragraphus.

1. A form of aphasia in which a person has lost the ability to speak correctly, by substituting one word for another, and jumbling words and sentences in an unintelligible way.
2. A speech disorder of neurological origin in which the speaker's words are jumbled unintelligibly.

1. Rewording for the purpose of clarification.
2. To express the same message in different words.
3. To restate something using other words; especially, in order to make it simpler or shorter.
4. A restatement of a text or passage in another form, or other words, often to clarify a meaning.
5. The restatement of texts in other words as a studying or teaching device.

Rewording for the purpose of clarification.

Having the nature of, or being, a paraphrase (a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form),

Delirium.

1. Severe paranoid illness without deterioration of other cognitive or affective processes.
2. The most common usage of the term today is to denote a disorder characterized by phantastic, absurd, paralogical delusions without deterioration, dementia, or loss of contact with reality except in the area of the delusional system.
3. In paranoid schizophrenia, on the other hand, there is deterioration and splitting off of many of the psychic functions, while in paranoia the delusions are so logical, at least on the surface, as to appear to be little more than an extension of the premorbid personality.

1. Mental derangement in general.
2. A reference to inflammation of the diaphragm, formerly thought to be invariably accompanied by delirium; hence applied to delirium supposed to be so produced.

One of the erect sterile filaments often occurring among the reproductive organs of certain fungi, algae, and mosses.