What's the difference between aphelia and aphemia?
Aphelia
Definition:
(pl. ) of Aphelion
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Aphemia
Definition:
(n.) Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.
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(1) The history of aphasia is usually taken to begin with Broca's (1861a,b) discovery of the correlation of aphemia with damage to the posterior inferior portion of the frontal lobes and the subsequent relation to left hemisphere.
(2) The speech of a patient with aphemia (pure anarthria) resulting from a penetrating brain wound was studied using linguistic and acoustic observations as well as electromyographic recordings from four labial muscles.
(3) There appear to be two syndromes that are almost exact duplicates in the adults and the children: (a) pure word deafness and verbal auditory agnosia, and (b) aphemia and verbal dyspraxia.
(4) A case is presented of a 13-year-old right-handed male who exhibited bilateral striato-capsular lesions following an episode of cerebral anoxia and a range of clinical features typical of aphemia.
(5) A 49-year-old right-handed man presented with a severe impairment of motor speech output aphemia.
(6) He was mute, communicating only through writing, but verbal comprehension was normal (aphemia).
(7) The clinical findings suggest a bilateral opercular syndrome due to a right hemisphere lesion and a crossed aphemia.
(8) Competing terms to designate disorders of speech and language were alalia (used by Jacques Lordat), aphemia (coined by Broca), and the ultimately triumphant aphasia (introduced by Armand Trousseau).
(9) As for the relationship between the left precentral gyrus and Broca's aphasia and its allied syndrome (ie, aphemia), we concluded that in Broca's aphasia the lower part of the precentral gyrus plays a more important role than previously assumed.
(10) Local cerebral metabolism was determined in a patient suffering aphemia following cerebral infarction using the 18FDG-PET technique.
(11) The mute or nearly mute patient who is alert and has good understanding of speech and a right hemiparesis could have Broca's aphasia, akinesia of speech (transcortical motor aphasia), or aphemia.