WERNICKE'S APHASIA


Meaning of WERNICKE'S APHASIA in English

/vair"ni keez, -keuhz/ , Pathol.

a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Wernicke's area of the brain and characterized by grammatical but more or less meaningless speech and an apparent inability to comprehend speech.

[ see WERNICKE'S AREA ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .