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conduction aphasia

[ kuhn-duhk-shuhn uh-fey-zhuh ]

noun

, Pathology.
  1. a type of aphasia associated with damage to the pathways that connect Wernicke's area and Broca's area in the left hemisphere of the brain, and characterized by fluent production of words, disrupted by repetition and repair of word choice errors, such as substitutions of phonologically similar words that do not convey the intended meaning.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of conduction aphasia1

First recorded in 1895–1900

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