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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ἀ

priv. + [GREEK] voice.]

(Med.)

Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; – a disorder of cerebral origin.

aphemia ‎(countable and uncountable, plural aphemias)

type of aphasia in which the ability to speak is lost