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agraphia::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | anorthography, logagraphia |
| Type of | brain disease, brain disorder, encephalopathy |
Examples of agraphia
agraphia
A minor one, it left him with a rare and paradoxical infirmity, alexia sine agraphia, the inability to read but not the inability to write.
From the boston.com
Alexia can also co-occur with agraphia, the specific loss of the ability to produce written language even when other manual motor abilities are intact.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion
- Dysgraphia (or agraphia) is a deficiency in the ability to write, regardless of the ability to read, not due to intellectual impairment.
- Acquired disturbance of writing due to brain injury (Love and Webb, 1996, p. 314)
- Inability to communicate ideas in written language not due to mechanical dysfunction; typically results from damage to the parietal lobe.
- (ah graf' e ah) Loss of ability to write (a form of aphasia). Symptom common to tumors of the parietal lobe of the dominant cerebral hemisphere.
- Inability to write. This term may also be used to specify specific disorders of spelling.
- Writing difficulty accompanying some aphasias and characterized by mistakes and poorly formed letters.
- An acquired condition of impaired or absent writing ability
