agraphia
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9.9
- noun
- /əˈɡræfiə/
- Specialized
- The doctor explained that agraphia often occurs alongside other cognitive impairments, impacting a person's ability to communicate effectively.
Examples
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Many patients with agraphia find it frustrating to express their thoughts in writing after sustaining a brain injury.
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Why didn't you ever use this agraphia excuse when Boborci kept asking you if you had any sort of head trauma?
Blog text (10) -
I could bring up the fact that I do have a bit of agraphia, but I do not like to use it as an excuse because it would make me too self-indulgent. I do want to be better above my limitations.
Blog text (22) -
Other common features include perseverations, amnestic and sensory aphasia, and agraphia.
Academic text (1996) -
I suffer from a mild case of aphasia, which mostly manifests in writing (agraphia).
Blog text (10) -
For example, alexia and agraphia (difficulty reading and writing numbers) are almost always associated with lesions to the left hemisphere, which also frequently involve neurological systems associated with aphasia (word retrieval difficulties) and reading disorders.
Academic text (2005) -
After his stroke, he experienced a severe case of agraphia, making it impossible for him to write even simple sentences.
Synonyms
Loss of the ability to write or express thoughts in writing after brain damage
A condition in which a person cannot write because of brain damage
Antonyms
How Able to Write
Surface Forms
Morphology
agraphia = graphia (opaque) = a + graph + ia
The word is built from the privative prefix 'a-' plus a learned classical base meaning 'writing', but that base is not transparent to most B1 learners.
Etymology
The word agraphia comes from the Greek parts a- meaning 'not' and graph meaning 'to write', the same root you see in autograph and graphic. So agraphia is the loss of the ability to write because of damage to the brain.