SINCE 1828
paraphasia
noun
par·a·pha·sia
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-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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