anomic aphasia

anomic aphasia
anomic aphasia n loss of the power to use or understand words denoting objects

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defective recall of words, such as names of objects, with intact abilities of comprehension and repetition. Called also amnesic a., amnestic a., nominal a., and anomia.

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