Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction
motor aphasia
Subclass of:
Aphasia
Definitions related to broca aphasia:
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(motor aphasia) Aphasia in which understanding is intact, but the ability to speak is lost. Also called Broca�s, expressive or nonfluent aphasias.Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and PsychologyBJ Sadock Titles Press, 2012
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(aphasia, broca) An aphasia characterized by impairment of expressive LANGUAGE (speech, writing, signs) and relative preservation of receptive language abilities (i.e., comprehension). This condition is caused by lesions of the motor association cortex in the FRONTAL LOBE (BROCA AREA and adjacent cortical and white matter regions).NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(broca's aphasia) Aphasia characterized by impairment of expressive language due to injury to the motor association cortex in the frontal lobe.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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