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Noun: Wernicke's aphasia
  1. Aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words
    "The patient with Wernicke's aphasia spoke rapidly but without coherent meaning";
    - fluent aphasia, receptive aphasia, sensory aphasia, impressive aphasia

Type of: alogia, aphasia

Encyclopedia: Wernicke's aphasia