This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

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

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. 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."

aphasy   

brain disease    encephalopathy    brain disorder   

wernicke's aphasia of conduction    optic aphasia    motor aphasia    auditory aphasia    visual aphasia    associative aphasia    word salad   

monophasia   

acoustic aphasia    sensory aphasia    fluent aphasia    expressive aphasia    total aphasia    alexia    anomic aphasia    anomia    motor aphasia    transcortical aphasia   

aphasiac    aphasic   

Anastasia    Asia    Australasia    Austrasia    Eurasia    Malaysia    dysplasia    euthanasia    fantasia    hyperplasia   

apraxia    dementia    schizophrenia    impairment    apnea    sclerosis    stuttering    neuropathy    retardation    autism