noun. Partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, resulting from damage to the brain from injury or disease.

noun. In pathology, the impairment or abolition of the faculty of using and understanding written and spoken language, independently of any failure of the intellectual processes or any disease or paralysis of the vocal organs.

noun. Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

noun. A partial or total loss of language skills due to brain damage. Usually, damage to the left perisylvian region, including Broca's area and Wernike's area, causes aphasia.

noun. inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion

"At the story's beginning, a drug damages Rodney and makes him completely and incurably aphasiac; the only dent in the aphasia is an Ancient device which allows Rodney to do pictoral mental communication with Ancient gene carriers, just barely enough that they don't need to ship him home immediately."

associative aphasia  auditory aphasia  motor aphasia  optic aphasia  visual aphasia  

aphasy  

monophasia  

aphasiac  aphasic  

brain disease  brain disorder  encephalopathy  

acoustic aphasia  alexia  amnesic aphasia  amnestic aphasia  anomia  

Anastasia  Asia  Australasia  Austrasia  Eurasia  

abnormality  amnesia  anemia  apnea  apraxia  

anaudia  aphonia  aphrasia  deaf-muteness  dumbness