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🧠 Unable to speak 🧠 A person with aphasia
aphasic

aphasic

1 9.9
A person who cannot speak or understand language after a brain injury
  • noun
  • /əˈfeɪzɪk/
  • Specialized
: afásico
  • You cannot lie to an aphasic He cannot grasp your words and so be deceived by them.
  • Types of aphasic
  • Two Types of aphasic

Examples

  • Jack, my arrested lung's aphasic.

    The Doctor (1991)

  • Similarly, he cites a Norwegian aphasic who lost the ability to pronounce tones phonemically in Norwegian.

    Academic text (2006)

  • An aphasic struggles to find the right words during a conversation.

  • The speech therapist worked with an aphasic to help him regain his language skills.

  • Many aphasic patients benefit from therapy focusing on communication techniques.

Synonyms

aphasiac
vsaphasic
  • Specialized
9.9

A person who has trouble speaking or understanding words after a brain injury

refers to someone affected by language impairment without naming the cause

How Aphasic

aphasic
  • Specialized
1 9.9
nonaphasic
  • Specialized
9.9

Surface Forms

aphasic singular
aphasics plural

Morphology

aphasic = aphasia (transparent) = aphasia + ic

Formed by a straightforward suffixation of '-ic' to the medical noun 'aphasia', so the relation is clear to learners who know 'aphasia'.

Etymology

Aphasic comes from Greek parts a- meaning 'not' and phasia meaning 'speech', and it shares the same root as the familiar word phrase, so an aphasic is a person who is 'without speech' or who has lost the ability to use language.