palilalia

NOUN
  1. a pathological condition in which a word is rapidly and involuntarily repeated
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How To Use palilalia In A Sentence

  • Formally, palilalia is a compulsive involuntary repetition of a semantically acceptable phrase or word.
  • Schizophrenics frequently speak in a stilted, manneristic fashion, and the fluency of their speech may be intermittently disturbed, with paucity of speech, verbigeration (associations repeated in a stereotyped manner, palilalia in the aphasia literature), or perseveration (words or phrases repetitively inserted in the flow of speech). The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
  • A case of membranous lipodystrophy associated with palilalia was reported.
  • Results indicate that there is not necessarily an increasing rapidity in palilalia.
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