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par·a·pha·sia | \ -ˈfā-zh(ē-)ə 
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\Medical Definition of paraphasia
: aphasia in which the patient uses wrong words or uses words or sounds in senseless combinations
— called also paragrammatism
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paraphasic \ -ˈfā-zik \ adjective
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