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Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
impairment of the ability to speak and write, due to a lesion in the insula and surrounding operculum including Broca's motor speech area. (The patient understands written and spoken words but has difficulty uttering the words.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
aphasia in which expression by speech or writing is severely impaired
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Broca's aphasia, ataxic aphasia, expressive aphasia, nonfluent aphasia
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: aphasia
History
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