Words similar to aphasia
Example sentences for: aphasia
How can you use “aphasia” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Wiltshire starts with a review of Johnson's own medical history: juvenile scrofula, poor vision in one eye, the famous “tics and gesticulations,” gout, asthma, a stroke with transient aphasia, and finally “dropsy” with death due to arteriosclerotic heart disease with congestive failure.
I can't remember what Gopnik calls this rare and peculiar form of aphasia, but W. and his father both seem to suffer from a version of it.
A similar compensatory process has been observed after stroke and aphasia, where an intact right hemisphere can at least partially compensate for a loss of function (Weiller et al.
Sacks' accounts of aphasia or amnesia or autism or Tourette's syndrome provide a certain believe-it-or-not quotient for the lay reader; they also have the force of parables.