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🧑‍⚕️ A person with alexia 📖 Unable to read
alexic

alexic

9.9
Unable to read because of a brain injury
  • adjective
  • /əˈlɛksɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : aléxico
  • Her alexic condition has made reading a challenge.

Examples

  • Certain brain injuries may cause an alexic condition affecting reading abilities.

  • He was diagnosed as alexic after a thorough neurological examination.

  • The patient exhibited alexic symptoms following the stroke.

  • The patient showed alexic symptoms after the stroke.

  • Following the accident, he displayed alexic symptoms that impaired his ability to read.

  • After her stroke, the doctor noted several alexic behaviors during the evaluation.

  • Patients with an alexic condition often struggle to recognize written words.

Synonyms

word-blind
vsalexic
  • Specialized
9.9

Unable to read written language because of brain injury

is a general term for symptoms relating to loss of reading ability

Surface Forms

alexic positive

Morphology

alexic = alexia (transparent) = alexia + ic

Formed by regular suffixation of '-ic' to the medical noun 'alexia', yielding an adjective meaning 'relating to alexia'.

Etymology

Alexic comes from the Greek parts a- meaning 'not' and lexis meaning 'word' or 'reading', the same root as lexicon, which means 'word list'. So, alexic describes a condition or symptom where a person has lost the ability to read.