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motor aphasia

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English

Syllables
mo-tor apha-sia
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

impairment of the ability to speak and write, due to a lesion in the insula and surrounding operculum including Broca's motor speech area. (The patient understands written and spoken words but has difficulty uttering the words.)

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

motor aphasias (plural)

Synonyms

logaphasia broca's aphasia ataxic aphasia expressive aphasia nonfluent aphasia

Questions

What does motor aphasia mean?
impairment of the ability to speak and write, due to a lesion in the insula and surrounding operculum including Broca's motor speech area. (The patient understands written and spoken words but has difficulty uttering the words.)

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