receptive aphasia

receptive aphasia
receptive aphasia n SENSORY APHASIA

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inability to understand written, spoken, or tactile speech symbols, due to disease of the auditory and visual word centers. Cf. motor a. Called also impressive a., sensory a., and Wernicke a.

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