Wernicke\'s aphasia

[vair-ni-keez, -kuhz]

Wer·nick·e's apha·sia

[vair-ni-keez, -kuhz]
noun Pathology.
a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Wernicke's area of the brain and characterized by grammatical but more or less meaningless speech and an apparent inability to comprehend speech.

Origin:
see Wernicke's area
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Wernicke's aphasia has a plethora of syllables.
So is cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine. Does it mean:
a white, crystalline, water-insoluble, powerful high explosive, C3H6N6O6, used chiefly in bombs and shells.
the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
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wernicke's aphasia

noun
aphasia characterized by fluent but meaningless speech and severe impairment of the ability understand spoken or written words 
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