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verbal aphasia
verbal aphasia In this historical source, verbal aphasia means aphemia, or ordinary aphasia of Broca’s type.
In this historical source, verbal aphasia means aphemia, or ordinary aphasia of Broca’s type. It is described as a loss of the motor memory for articulation, so the person has no paralysis of the speech organs but cannot form spoken words because the learned movements of speech are lost or badly impaired.