Medical Terminology / Unit 12 MedTerm 0796 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Aphasia
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The idea
Aphasia is the loss of the ability to produce or understand language.
In practice
The prefix a names without, and phasia names speech.
Where people slip
Aphasia concerns language. Dysphagia, differing by one letter, concerns swallowing.
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