aphasia
/əˈfeɪzjə/noun
mass noun
- Medicine inability (or impaired ability) to understand or produce speech, as a result of brain damage【医】（脑部损伤引起的）失语, 语言能力受损症。比较APHONIA.
派生词
aphasic
adjective & noun词源
mid 19th cent.: from Greek， from aphatos 'speechless'， from a- 'not' + phanai 'speak'.