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motor aphasia

 

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Noun motor aphasia has 1 sense
  1. motor aphasia, Broca's aphasia, ataxic aphasia, expressive aphasia, nonfluent aphasia - aphasia in which expression by speech or writing is severely impaired
    --1 is a kind of aphasia

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Motor Aphasia

Definition: Motor aphasia, also known as Broca's aphasia, is a type of language disorder characterized by difficulty with speech production due to damage in the brain's posterior frontal lobe.

Senses and Usages:

Sense 1: In neurology, the inability or impairment to articulate words or construct sentences due to motor control problems affecting the muscles involved in speech.

Example sentence: The stroke left him with motor aphasia, making it challenging for him to convey his thoughts verbally.

Sense 2: A localized form of motor aphasia that specifically affects the ability to produce grammatically correct sentences but with preserved comprehension of language.

Example sentence: After the accident, he experienced motor aphasia, struggling to construct sentences properly, even though he could understand everything being said.

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