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Noun: conduction aphasia
  1. Aphasia in which the lesion is assumed to be in the association tracts connecting the various language centres in the brain; patient's have difficulty repeating a sentence just heard
    "In conduction aphasia, the patient could speak and understand but struggled to repeat phrases";
    - associative aphasia

Derived forms: conduction aphasias

Type of: alogia, aphasia

Encyclopedia: Conduction aphasia