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anomic aphasia

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anomic aphasia [ə′näm·ik ə′fāzh·ə]
(psychology)
A subtype of fluent aphasia in which principal nouns and verbs cannot be recalled by the individual; typically caused by injury at the temporo-parietal junction.


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For example, McNeil and colleagues applied Lexical-Semantic Activation Inhibition Treatment (L-SAIT) to retrieval of verbs, nouns, and adjectives with a participant with anomic aphasia [11].
This symptom is called "anomia" and it should not be confused with the syndrome of anomic aphasia.
 
 
 
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