Wernicke's aphasia

Wernicke's aphasia
/vair"ni keez, -keuhz/, Pathol.
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.
[see WERNICKE'S AREA]

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