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Definition of dysphasia noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

dysphasia

noun
 
/dɪsˈfeɪziə/
 
/dɪsˈfeɪʒə/
[uncountable] (medical)
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  1. a condition affecting the brain that causes difficulty in speaking and understandingTopics Disabilityc2
    Word Originlate 19th cent.: from Greek dusphatos ‘hard to utter’, from dus- ‘difficult’ + phatos ‘spoken’.
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