receptive aphasia

noun

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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Wernicke's aphasiafluent aphasiasensory aphasiaimpressive aphasia
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Meanings

nounreceptive aphasia (countable and uncountable, plural receptive aphasias)

plural receptive aphasias

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

Synonyms & antonyms

nounaphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words

Similar
Wernicke's aphasiafluent aphasiasensory aphasiaimpressive aphasia
Broader
aphasia
Also see
wernicke's aphasia

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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