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receptive aphasia

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English

Syllables
re-cep-tive apha-sia
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

inability to understand written, spoken, or tactile speech symbols, due to disease of the auditory and visual word centers, as in word blindness

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

receptive aphasias (plural)

Synonyms

wernicke's aphasia fluent aphasia sensory aphasia impressive aphasia

Questions

What does receptive aphasia mean?
inability to understand written, spoken, or tactile speech symbols, due to disease of the auditory and visual word centers, as in word blindness

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