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aphasic

ADJECTIVE
  1. related to or affected by aphasia
    aphasic speech
  2. unable to speak because of a brain lesion
NOUN
  1. someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand language

How To Use aphasic In A Sentence

  • To explore the mechanisms and neurological basis of aphasic agraphia, 20 patients with aphasic agraphia after cerebral infarction were selected for observation.
  • This produces Para paresis; with weakness more marked peripherally, urinary incontinence and aboulic and aphasic symptoms.
  • The girl was aphasic because of brain damage suffered during a difficult birth.
  • (Even Ike's famously rambling press-conference answers, according to his press secretary, were purposeful obfuscations rather than aphasic incompetence.) Archive 2009-01-01
  • Do we really understand what aphasic patients are trying to tell us when we get informed consent for invasive procedures?
  • Whenever you so much as mention the idea of an Obama presidency to one of them, they become almost aphasic with inchaoate fear -- it's like they believe that the day he's inaugurated a vast secret army of gigantic black men will be unleashed for a Satanic orgy of rape and pillage and murder directed particularly toward old white women. Poll: Obama Struggling With Older Women
  • Mildly aphasic and often confused, he could no longer defend himself.
  • Someone played saxophone badly on a rooftop a block away, and was still playing as my electric typewriter smacked the manuscript paper keeping broken time with the aphasic saxman. Giles Slade: The King of Pop (and Heartbreak)
  • From there she found nervy roles and they found her: an explosive pro boxer in "Fighting Words," a stuttering, seizure prone South Londoner in Sarah Kane's "Blasted," and a stammering aphasic in Sam Shepherd's "A Lie of the Mind. Meeting Her Match
  • Was the Federation correct in working with the Son'a to harvest the metaphasic radiation from the rings of the planet?
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