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Meaning of "agraphia" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AGRAPHIA

New Latin, from a-1 + Greek graphein to write.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AGRAPHIA

agraphia  [əˈɡræfɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AGRAPHIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Agraphia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AGRAPHIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Agraphia

Agraphia is an acquired neurological disorder causing a loss in the ability to communicate through writing, either due to some form of motor dysfunction or an inability to spell. The loss of writing ability may present with other language or neurological disorders; disorders appearing commonly with agraphia are alexia, aphasia, dysarthria, agnosia, and apraxia. The study of individuals with agraphia may provide more information about the pathways involved in writing, both language related and motoric. Agraphia cannot be directly treated, but individuals can learn techniques to help regain and rehabilitate some of their previous writing abilities. These techniques differ depending on the type of agraphia. Agraphia can be broadly divided into central and peripheral categories. Central agraphias typically involve language areas of the brain, causing difficulty spelling or with spontaneous communication, and are often accompanied by other language disorders. Peripheral agraphias usually target motor and visuospatial skills in addition to language and tend to involve motoric areas of the brain, causing difficulty in the movements associated with writing.

Definition of agraphia in the English dictionary

The definition of agraphia in the dictionary is loss of the ability to write, resulting from a brain lesion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AGRAPHIA


daffier
ˈdæfɪə
dermatographia
ˌdɜːmətəˈɡræfɪə
dysgraphia
dɪsˈɡræfɪə
logagraphia
ˌlɒɡəˈɡræfɪə
Maffia
ˈmæfɪə
Mafia
ˈmæfɪə
raffia
ˈræfɪə
Rafia
ˈræfɪə
raphia
ˈræfɪə
taffia
ˈtæfɪə
tafia
ˈtæfɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AGRAPHIA

agr.
Agra
agrafe
agraffe
Agram
agrammatical
agranulocyte
agranulocytosis
agranulosis
agrapha
agraphic
agrarian
agrarianism
agravic
agree
agree to differ
agreeability
agreeable
agreeableness
agreeably

WORDS THAT END LIKE AGRAPHIA

apomorphia
Appalachia
aristolochia
atrophia
Bahia
chia
Cynthia
dystrophia
Escherichia
eucryphia
forsythia
Ischia
lithia
morphia
paragraphia
Parthia
Philadelphia
Pythia
Shia
Sophia

Synonyms and antonyms of agraphia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «agraphia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AGRAPHIA

Find out the translation of agraphia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of agraphia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «agraphia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

失写症
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

agraphia
570 millions of speakers

English

agraphia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अक्षमता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اللاكتابية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

аграфия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

agraphia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

agraphia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

agraphie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Agrafia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

agraphia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

失書
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

서증
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Agraphia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

agraphia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

agraphia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

एजफिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

agrafi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

agrafia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

agrafia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

аграфия
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

agrafie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγραφία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

agraphia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

agraphia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

agrafi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of agraphia

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AGRAPHIA»

The term «agraphia» is normally little used and occupies the 130.748 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AGRAPHIA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «agraphia» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «agraphia» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about agraphia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AGRAPHIA»

Discover the use of agraphia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to agraphia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Color Atlas of Neurology
Agraphia is the acquired inability to write. Agraphia may be isolated (due to a lesion located in area 6. the superior parietal lobule. or elsewhere) or accompanied by other disturbances: aphasic agraphia is fluent or nonfluent. depending on the ...
Reinhard Rohkamm, 2011
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The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders
Damage to specific components of the spelling process may result in identifiable agraphia syndromes with relatively predictable lesion sites (Roeltgen, 1993, 1994; Rapcsak and Beeson, 2000, 2002). Central agraphia syndromes reflect ...
Raymond D. Kent, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004
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Clinical Neuropsychology
For a century after Benedikt (1865) applied the term agraphia to disorders of writing, studies of agraphia focused on the relationship of agraphia to aphasia. Ogle (1867) found that although aphasia and agraphia usually occur together, they ...
Kenneth M. Heilman James E. Rooks Jr. Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Clinical and Health Psychology, Chair of the Department of Neurology Residency Program University of Florida College of Medicine Edward Valenstein William L. and Janice M. Neely Professors of Neurology, Gainesville, 2003
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Aphasia, Alexia, and Agraphia
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David Frank Benson, 1979
5
Neuroscience for the Study of Communicative Disorders
A fourth neurolinguistic alexia syndrome, letter- by-letter reading, is synonymous with the syndrome of pure alexia without agraphia (see section on alexia without agraphia), in which patients have recovered enough reading ability to read ...
Subhash Chandra Bhatnagar, 2002
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The Influence of Lexical and Sublexical Factors on Acquired ...
Coltheart, 1985) and phonological agraphia is often accompanied by phonological alexia (Coltheart et al., 1980). There are reports in the literature of surface and phonological agraphia occurring without an accompanied reading impairment ...
Rebecca B. Volk, 2009
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Acquired Speech and Language Disorders
Alexia with agraphia, also called 'parietal alexia' or 'parietal temporal alexia', was first described by Dejerine (1891). His case manifested an almost total inability to read, a limited writing ability, a mild aphasia and a calculation disturbance ...
Bruce E. Murdoch, 2013
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The Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and ...
They may, however, be impaired selectively, yielding to different agraphia types. Clinical Examination Examination for agraphia includes spontaneous writing, writing to dictation (Figure 1), and written naming. If the dominant arm is paralyzed, ...
W. Edward Craighead, Charles B. Nemeroff, 2004
9
Aphasia: A Clinical Perspective
literature) are recognized: central agraphia and peripheral agraphia (Ellis, 1988; Ellis, Young, and Flude, 1987), paralleling the distinction between central alexia and peripheral alexia (Shallice and Warrington, 1980). Anatomically based and ...
David Frank Benson, Alfredo Ardila, 1996
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INS Dictionary of Neuropsychology
7 Agraphia writing disorders meaning is generally preserved because of the presence of substantive words with high information content. Agrammatism is also called telegraphic speech (or telegramma- tism) because of the absence of ...
David W. Loring, Kimford J. Meador, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AGRAPHIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term agraphia is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Visual signs and symptoms in patients with the visual variant of …
Lesions of the ventral system (« what » pathway) produce alexia without agraphia, visual object agnosia, and prosopagnosia (inability to ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jun 15»
2
The mystery of the incredible human brain: we've learned a lot, but …
This condition, known as alexia without agraphia, is caused by a tiny stroke, a blockage in blood supply, damaging the corpus callosum, ... «The Independent, Mar 15»
3
Interview: Jennifer Brea Talks About Obstacles, Adjustments, and …
Arrived was tachycardia, perverse metabolic collapse in the face of minor exertion, sound sensitivity, ataxia, agraphia and expressive aphasia ... «ProHealth, Aug 14»
4
He Wants review – Alison Moore's story of danger and desire
... for Alison Moore's He Wants. 'Lewis has the disconcerting experience of forgetting what he's read.' Illustration: Clifford Harper/Agraphia.co.uk. «The Guardian, Jul 14»
5
The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham review – a novel of New …
illustration for The Snow Queen. Skating the rim of the fantastical … The Snow Queen. Photograph: Clifford Harper/agraphia.co.uk/Graphic. «The Guardian, May 14»
6
Crime Writers of Canada announces inaugural Grand Master Award …
After suffering a stroke in 2000, Engel was left with alexia sine agraphia. The condition left him unable to read, meaning he had to relearn. «National Post, Apr 14»
7
What Do We Have To Teach Plato?
And he uses a word, a Greek work, agraphia, which means ungrounded. It's where we're just cut off from reality unless we can argue, we can ... «WUWF, Apr 14»
8
What Happens When a Teacher Forgets How to Read?
Agraphia—or "word blindness"—is unusual because patients cannot read, but they can write and understand words out loud. (Courtesy of ... «Smithsonian, Jan 14»
9
Internet Commenter Syndrome: This Woman Can Write But Can't Read
After checking herself into the emergency room, M.P. was officially diagnosed with alexia without agraphia; in other words, she'd lost the ability ... «Gizmodo Australia, Jan 14»
10
The Teacher Who Forgot How To Read
ResearchBlogging.org Cuomo J, Flaster M, & Biller J (2014). Right Brain: A reading specialist with alexia without agraphia: Teacher interrupted. «Discover Magazine, Jan 14»

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