Fluent Aphasia

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Fluent Aphasia

Definition: Fluent Aphasia

Fluent Aphasia

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Fluent Aphasia

Synonyms: impressive aphasia (n), receptive aphasia (n), sensory aphasia (n). (additional references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Fluent Aphasia

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

People with fluent aphasia have problems understanding spoken and written language. (references)

In contrast to Broca's aphasia, damage to the temporal lobe may result in a fluent aphasia that is called Wernicke's aphasia. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Fluent Aphasia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fluent aphasia

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Fluent Aphasia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-f-h-i-l-n-p-s-t-u"

-3 letters: euthanasia.

-4 letters: ailanthus, aphanites, epifaunal, epifaunas, fishplate, palatines, panatelas.

-5 letters: althaeas, alunites, anapaest, anaphase, anthelia, apathies, aphanite, aphelian, ashplant, asthenia, epifauna, fantails, fantasia, fantasie, fistulae, fleapits, haplites, hasteful, inflates, insulate, nuptials, palatine, panatela, panelist, pantiles, petunias, pheasant, plainest, platanes, plateaus, platinas, pleasant, shinleaf, spinulae, spiteful, stapelia, sulphate, sulphite, supinate, tailfans, thespian, unfaiths, unplaits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fluent Aphasia


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 6C 75 65 6E 74      41 70 68 61 73 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101100 01110101 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01000001 01110000 01101000 01100001 01110011 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

F l u e n t   A p h a s i a

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 006C 0075 0065 006E 0074      0041 0070 0068 0061 0073 0069 0061

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

407887718086235827467857567

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