auditory aphasia

auditory aphasia
auditory aphasia n inability to understand spoken words

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a form of receptive aphasia in which sounds are heard but convey no meaning to the person affected, due to disease of the subcortical pathways leading to the main auditory center of the brain, or disease of the center itself; called also acoustic a. and word deafness.

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