sensory aphasia
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- noun
- /ˈsɛn.sə.ri əˈfeɪ.ʒə/
- Specialized
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afasia sensorial
- The doctor explained that my friend was diagnosed with sensory aphasia after the stroke, which made it hard for him to understand what we said.
Examples
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Individuals with sensory aphasia often struggle to understand what others are saying to them.
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The neurologist diagnosed the patient with sensory aphasia after observing fluent but meaningless speech.
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Due to his sensory aphasia, reading and writing became extremely challenging tasks.
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The patient was diagnosed with sensory aphasia after the stroke.
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Doctors observed that her sensory aphasia made communication difficult.
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After the accident, she struggled with sensory aphasia, speaking fluently but often mixing up the words.
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Patients with sensory aphasia can talk easily, but their sentences may not make any sense to others.
Synonyms
A condition where a person speaks in long sentences that do not make sense and cannot understand speech or writing
Fluent speech that has little meaning and very poor understanding of what others say or write
A condition in which a person speaks smoothly but their words have little meaning and cannot understand speech or writing
Talking that sounds normal but uses wrong words and makes understanding language hard
Surface Forms
Morphology
The term combines 'aphasia' (loss of language ability) with 'sensory' (relating to perception), so a learner who knows both words can reasonably infer it is a type of aphasia affecting comprehension/receptive (sensory) aspects of language. However, the specific clinical profile (fluent but meaningless speech) is technical and not fully predictable from the constituents alone, making the expression only partially transparent.
Etymology
Sensory aphasia The name sensory aphasia comes from the parts sensory, meaning about the senses, and aphasia, meaning a 'loss of language'. It describes when a person can speak fluently but their words are meaningless and they have trouble understanding others, so the name links the problem to 'loss of language' and 'difficulty understanding'.