ALEXIA Definition & Meaning

alexia

[ uh-lek-see-uh ]

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noun

Pathology.

a neurologic disorder marked by loss of the ability to understand written or printed language, usually resulting from a brain lesion or a congenital defect.

alexia

/ əˈ��ɛ��ɪə /

noun

a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by impaired ability to read Nontechnical nameword blindness Compare aphasia

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of alexia¹

1875–80; a- ⁶ + Greek ��é�� ( is ) speech ( leg- stem of ��é��𾱲� to speak + -sis -sis ) + -ia; altered meaning by association of -lex- with lexicon, etc.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of alexia¹

C19: from New Latin, from a- ¹+ Greek lexis speech; influenced in meaning by Latin legere to read

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Another alexia expert, Pélagie Beeson of the University of Arizona, tells me that less than 6 percent of the patients she works with suffer from pure alexia.

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Destruction of the visual speech centre produces visual aphasia or alexia.

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And in the higher reaches of mental function, the same antithesis comes out in the contrast of sensory and motor aphasia, alexia, sensory and motor types of memory and imagination, etc.

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Pure alexia, which is Mum’s diagnosis, is much more rare: She can still write and touch-type, but bizarrely, she cannot read.

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