More commonly, inability, due to brain disease, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.
ay-LEX-ee-uh A form of receptive aphasia involving difficulty understanding written or printed information (reading comprehension).
The inability to understand written language.
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a form of sensory aphasia resulting in the loss of the ability to read; word blindness
Loss of a previously intact ability to grasp the meaning of written or printed words and sentences.
A language related disability characterised by the partial or complete loss of the ability to identify the printed word. The disorder is often quite specific in that alexics do not have impairment of vision and can identify spoken words normally. Sometimes called: word blindness and visual aphasia.
inability to perceive written words
Inability to comprehend written words.
Loss of the power to read.
An impairment in the ability to comprehend written words or to read aloud.
an acquired reading deficit
Inability to understand written language. Anomia Inability to recall names of objects. Persons with this problem often can speak fluently but have to use other words to describe familiar objects. nterograde Amnesia Inability to consolidate information about ongoing events. Difficulty with new learning.
Alexia (from the Greek , privative, expressing negation, and = "word") is an acquired type of sensory aphasia where damage to the brain causes a patient to lose the ability to read. It is also called word blindness, text blindness or visual aphasia.
