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In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] vocabulary
5 pathology terms (diseases and disease symptoms)
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aphasia
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Definition:Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Harvey: Uh, about six months ago, I started grinding my - [hesitates] you know. In your mouth. You chew with them....
Annette: Teeth. Harvey's experiencing a little nominal aphasia. You know, when you can't remember nouns.
Foreman: Yeah, I think I know what nominal aphasia is.
David Shore. House, M.D., season 1: Love Hurts (2005)
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Moreover, that name of Swann, with which I had for so long been familiar, was to me now (as happens at times to people suffering from aphasia, in the case of the most ordinary words) the name of something new.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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"At the moment the right side of his face and right arm are paralyzed. And he's experiencing aphasia, which may or may not be permanent."
Robert Rice. The Nature of Midnight, p.294 (2003)
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the aphasia of that heroic agony of recalling a once loved number leading slip by slipper to a general amnesia of misnomering one’s own
James Joyce. Finnegans Wake (1939)
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