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alexia

[ UK /ɐlˈɛksi‍ə/ ]
[ US /əˈɫɛksiə/ ]
NOUN
  1. inability to perceive written words

How To Use alexia In A Sentence

  • Unintelligible there's even a Greek name for it in people, called alexia sine agrafia, lost of ability to read but not of ability to write. NPR Topics: News
  • (Oliver Sacks 'most recent New Yorker article, about people who suffer from alexia, or loss of the ability to recognize written language, puts the wondrousness and complexity of that last brain function into perspective.) Marian Salzman: Headstrong, Part II: The Creative Process
  • Don't follow alexia or damien mulley on twitter either, they're the 'waldorf and statler' of web2. 0 - Even if you don't follow the A-Lister/meme-of-the-day, their witty commentary compels you to read scoble/winer et al just to see what lexia/mulley are talking about. Let's not be part of the lazysphere
  • The term'alexia'is used to refer to any acquired disorder of reading.
  • For example, we have the case of alexia without agaphia, in other words, a patient who, due to injury or a stroke, is unable to read, yet able to write.
  • Rick was unmoved emotionally as he laid eyes on the same dashboards and controls he sees almost every day but Alexia
  • The pure syndrome of alexia without agraphia is best viewed as a ‘linguistic blindfold’.
  • Of three of the principal women, Midge and Alexia so clearly belong to different classes, and Cressy to none.
  • Strokes that cause alexia, the loss or impairment of the ability to read, or aphasia, the loss or impairment of the ability to express or comprehend language by speech or sign, are examples of debilitating impairment.
  • Don't follow alexia or damien mulley on twitter either, they're the 'waldorf and statler' of web2. 0 - Even if you don't follow the A-Lister/meme-of-the-day, their witty commentary compels you to read scoble/winer et al just to see what lexia/mulley are talking about. Let's not be part of the lazysphere
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