How To Use apraxia In A Sentence
- And apraxia, which is often caused by a stroke, is a serious disorder that disrupts neural programming and often leaves its patients unable to speak at all. GEORGE W. Bushisms
- One of the hallmarks of apraxia is the relative preservation of automatic or over learned speech sequences such as greetings, leave-takings and proverbs.
- Neurapraxia of the brachial plexus or cervical nerve roots, often called a stinger or burner, causes pain and paresthesia in a single upper extremity, usually radiating from the neck into the shoulder, arm, or hand.
- Inability to execute an intended action is known as apraxia, slowness and difficulty in doing it is dyspraxia.
- An example of a test for apraxia is to ask the patient to pantomime the use of a common object such as a hammer or a toothbrush.
- Neurapraxia of the brachial plexus or cervical nerve roots, often called a stinger or burner, causes pain and paresthesia in a single upper extremity, usually radiating from the neck into the shoulder, arm, or hand.
- An example of a test for apraxia is to ask the patient to pantomime the use of a common object such as a hammer or a toothbrush.
- Dementia is chronic and progressive, and it is characterized by the gradual onset of impaired memory and deficits in two or more areas of cognition, such as anomia, agnosia or apraxia.
- Motor dysfunction of the hands often manifests itself as ‘clumsiness’ that mimics cerebral apraxia, rather than as objective weakness.
- Apraxia of speech is a term frequently used by speech pathologists to designate an impairment in the voluntary production of articulation and prosody (the rhythm and timing) of speech.
