motor aphasia

English

Noun

motor aphasia (countable and uncountable, plural motor aphasias)

  1. (pathology) 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.)

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