What's the difference between aphasia and aphasic?
Aphasia
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Aphasy
Example Sentences:
(1) We studied the effects of the localisation and size of ischemic brain infarcts and the influence of potential covariates (gender, age, time since infarction, physical handicap, cognitive impairment, aphasia, cortical atrophy and ventricular size) on 'post-stroke depression'.
(2) Patients with severe aphasia or cognitive impairment who could not communicate well enough for the administration of depression rating scales were excluded.
(3) Among these associated neurological features, only aphasia and apraxia were present in mildly demented cases with sufficient frequency to suggest utility as diagnostic signs early in the course of the disease.
(4) Moreover, on the basis of the results of accumulated lesions on 127 cases with various types of aphasia, the highly involved sites were determined as Broca's area, Wernicke's area and conduction area, and the sizes of the lesions in each area were also determined.
(5) We examined a 55-year-old right-handed woman showing transient coma, amnesia, mild right hemiparesis, vertical gaze impairment and aphonia without aphasia.
(6) Hemiplegia and aphasia, when present, usually regressed within a few months.
(7) For fluency (from the Western Aphasia Battery), subcortical structural damage had direct and indirect (through frontal lobe) effects on the behavior.
(8) In eleven cases the aphasia was due to cerebrovascular disease and in the remaining four cases to traumatic injury to the brain.
(9) Of the four primarily cortical deficits assessed, three (visual field abnormalities, neglect, and aphasia) showed a highly significant graded relationship to the cardiac risk groups.
(10) In reviewing the literature, it was found that these patients were similar to those reported with progressive aphasia.
(11) During the technical and clinical work with the PicBox program we have had the reason and possibility to reflect on the relation between aphasia, language and thinking.
(12) The meaning of the emotional reaction shown by left brain-damaged patients seems easy to understand, if we consider that these subjects are affected by aphasia and by a paresis of the right hand.
(13) Broca's aphasia is characterized by disorders on the phonemic, syntactic and lexical level of linguistic description.
(14) We have made a detailed neurolinguistic study of a patient with motor aphasia.
(15) The extent and severity of his global aphasia were unchanged.
(16) The Landau-Kleffner syndrome is a rare form of acquired childhood aphasia associated with convulsive disorder.
(17) Attention is drawn to the existence of this rare form of aphasia and to the lack of appropriate educational facilities for aphasic children in general.
(18) The patient had an episode of aphasia 15 years ago, but recovered within 6 months.
(19) Clinical manifestations may include transient aphasia and weakness of the limbs with pyramidal signs.
(20) We report here the result of neuropsychological evaluation in a case of associative visual agnosia evolving to optic aphasia.
Aphasic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or affected by, aphasia; speechless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Therefore, the four memory tasks were readministered to the 3 aphasic patients 2 years later, and intergroup performance comparisons again were made.
(2) Their relative levels of impairment on the COW were reversed: The anomic aphasics' performance (z = 1.79) was worse than that of the DATs (z = -0.66).
(3) Previous experiments with picture sorting and matching tasks have shown aphasics to give more deviant responses than controls when decisions require the identification of single features of concepts, whereas their responses are close to normal whenever decisions have to be based on the relative overlap of broad associative fields.
(4) During subsequent assessments, agrammatic aphasics reveal on a metalinguistic judgment task their significant difficulty appreciating the grammatical form class of "bice"; on an object classification task, fluent aphasics are significantly impaired in their classification of bice-colored objects as "bice."
(5) However, in normals as in aphasics verbal creativity was higher in the non-basic words than in the basic ones.
(6) The research, performed on 80 Romanian-speaking aphasics showed that the frequency of various types of phonetic errors is quite different in various languages, as presented in aphasiologic references.
(7) Seventeen spontaneous speech measures and scores on a naming test, employed to characterize the expressive performance of 121 aphasics, were subjected to a factor analysis.
(8) Fourteen aphasic patients with acute onset of thromboembolic cerebrovascular insults demonstrable by angiography or radioscintigrams who were available for long-term follow-up have been studied.
(9) Automated comprehension training was utilized to present five original language programs to seven aphasic adults.
(10) The observation of aphasics and of a certain partial temporal epileptics permits to dissociate these two forms of language.
(11) Attention is drawn to the existence of this rare form of aphasia and to the lack of appropriate educational facilities for aphasic children in general.
(12) Findings suggest that whether an aphasic with a language comprehension defect is impaired in sound recognition or pantomime recognition depends, at least in part, on individually variable predisposing factors.
(13) The error patterns of normal and aphasic adults on a sentence comprehension test were studied.
(14) On the auditory comprehension task, however, improvement was noted in all aphasics regardless of type.
(15) Lesions were retrorolandic in 8 out of 9 fluent aphasics while extending anteriorly in all 6 nonfluent aphasics.
(16) The verbal production of 57 aphasic patients was rated and used to assign these patients into two sets of groups reflecting Howes' and Weisenburg and McBride's models of aphasia.
(17) Anomic aphasics produced the fewest phonemic errors and the most multiword circumlocutions; this pattern suggests minimal word-production difficulty in anomic aphasia relative to the other aphasia syndromes.
(18) Normal and aphasic speakers of English, German, and Italian described nine picture triplets in which one element varied while the others remained constant.
(19) At the time of the operation, which was performed 6-10 hours after the onset of signs, all the patients were hemiplegic and, when dominant side affected, aphasic, 5 of them have had the level of consciousness slightly depressed.
(20) A brief functional description is given of an optic aphasic patient, A.G., who shows a pure and isolated deficit in naming visually presented objects on confrontation, but with sparing of visual action names.