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exist alone or in association with the motor aphasia. 

 Amnesia appears clinically in three distinct forms ; I . 

 Simple loss of memory of words. 2. Word-deafness , or 

 inability to understand spoken words (there is usually 

 some paraphasia connected with this form). 3. Word- 

 blindness, or inability to understand written or printed 

 words. Paraphasia, a form of aphasia in which there 

 is inability to connect ideas with the proper words to 

 express the ideas. Agrammatism, a phenomenon of 

 aphasia consisting in the inability to form words gram- 

 matically, or the suppression of certain words of a 

 phrase. Ataxaphasia, inability to arrange words 

 synthetically into sentences. Bradyphasia, abnormal 

 slowness of speech, from pathological cause. Tumul- 

 tus sermonis, a stuttering manner of reading, from 

 pathological cause. A., Conduction, such as is due 

 not to any central lesion , but to defect in some commis- 

 sural connection between centers. A., Gibberish, 

 aphasia in which the patient can utter many words, 

 but uses them in such a way that they express no 

 meaning 



Aphasiac (ah-fa' '-ze-ak) [d priv. ; <j>dmg, speech] . One 

 who is aphasic. 



Aphasic (ah-fa f -zik) [d priv. ; (j>daig, speech]. Relat- 

 ing to, or affected with aphasia. 



Aphelexia (af-el-eks'-e-ah). An incorrect form of the 

 word Aphelxia, q. v. 



Apheliotropism (afel-e-of '-ro-pizm) [and, from ; rj?uog, 

 the sun ; rpdirog, a turn]. In biology, turning away 

 from the sunlight ; negative heliotropism. 



Aphelotic (af-el-of -ik) [dtpeXiceiv, to draw away]. 

 Absent-minded ; lost in reverie. 



Aphelxia (af elks' -e-ah) [ci^eKkuv, to draw away]. 

 Absence of mind ; inattention to external impres- 

 sions. 



Aphemia (ah-fe' -me-ah) [d priv. ; <f>r/fiT}, voice]. Motor 

 aphasia ; inability to articulate words or sentences, 

 from focal and not from peripheral disease of the 

 organs of speech (Alalia). This term is variously 

 used ; sometimes it is equivalent to aphasia ; some- 

 times it means loss of voice, from local causes ; some- 

 times hysterical or wilful refraining from speech. 

 See Aphasia. 



Aphemic (ah-fem'-ik) [d priv. ; <pi//j.7/, voice]. Relating 

 to or affected with aphemia. 



Aphephobia (af-e-fo'-be-ah) [dcjif/, touch ; tydflog, fear] . 

 Hyperesthetic dread of contact with other persons. 



Apheresis, or Apha^resis (afer'-es-is) [and, away ; 

 alpe Iv, to take] . Removal; amputation; abstraction, 

 as of blood. 



Apheter (af'-et-er) [dcfter^p, one who lets go or sends 

 away]. A supposed impulse-carrying, or trigger- 

 material, probably a catastate, which communicates to 

 the inogen the nerve impulse that causes its destruc- 

 tion, and the consequent muscular contraction. In a 

 larger sense, any trigger-material that takes part in 

 any functional process may be called an apheter. 



Aphidein [af-id-e' -in) [aphis, a plant louse]. A re- 

 spiratory pigment obtained from the aphis. 



Aphilanthropy (ah-fl-an'-thro-pe) [d priv. ; <pi?*elv, to 

 love ; avOpuiroc, man]. Absence of social feeling ; a 

 frequent sign of approaching melancholia. 



Aphonia (ah-fc/ -ne-ah) [d priv. ; <puvii, voice]. I. 

 Dumbness, due to some peripheral lesion. 2. Hysteri- 

 cal, or paralytic absence of the power of speech. 3. 

 Voicelessness. 



Aphonic (ah-fon'-ik) [d priv. ; <f>uvi/, voice]. Speech- 

 less ; dumb ; voiceless. 



Aphoresis (ah-for-e'-sis) [d priv. ; <f>dpr/mg, bearing (by 

 error for Apheresis) 1 . I. Separation or ablation of a 

 part, either by excision or amputation. 2. Lack of 

 the power of endurance, as of pain. 



Aphoria {ah-fo' -re-ah) [d priv. ; <pepeiv, to bear]. 

 Sterility ; unfruitfulness. 



Aphrasia (ah-fra' '-ze-ah) [d priv. ; $pd(,eiv, to utter] . 

 Absence of the power to utter connected phrases. 



Aphrodisia (afro-diz'-e-ah) [atypodioia, venery]. Sex- 

 ual desire, especially when morbid, or immoderate ; 

 sexual congress. 



Aphrodisiac (afro-diz'-e-ah) [cuppodiaia, venery]. 1. 

 Stimulating the sexual appetite ; erotic. 2. An agent 

 stimulating the sexual passion. 



Aphtha (af'-thah) [a<j>Qa, an eruption]. An eruption ; 

 an ulcer. 



Aphthae (af'-the) [dcpda, an eruption]. Also called 

 Aphthous stomatitis. Small white ulcers, spots or 

 vesicles of the mouth, chiefly occurring in children 

 under three years of age, and generally associated with 

 some febrile affection. Itmust not be confounded with 

 thrush, in which disease the spots are smaller and are 

 due to the presence of the parasitic fungus characteris- 

 tic of that disease. A., Bednar's, two symmetri- 

 cally placed ulcers seen on the hard palate of certain 

 cachectic infants near the velum, one on either side of 

 the mesial line. The prognosis is exceedingly grave. 

 A., Cachectic, aphthae appearing beneath the tongue, 

 and associated with grave constitutional symptoms ; 

 Riga's disease. 



Aphthaphyte {af'-thah- fit). See Aphthophyte. 



Aphthenxia (afthengks' -e-ah) [d priv. ; (j>6eyt;ir, utter- 

 ance]. A form of aphasia with impaired expression of 

 articulate sounds. 



Aphthoid (af-thoid) [d<j>8a, an eruption]. Like or re- 

 sembling aphthae. 



Aphthongia (af-thong' -ge-ah) [d priv. ; <j>6dyyor, a 

 sound]. A peculiar form of aphasia due to spasm of 

 the muscles supplied by the hypoglossal nerve. 



Aphthophyte (af'-tho-flt) [atytia, aphtha; <pvrdv, plant]. 

 The Oidium albicans, or Saccharomyces albicans, a 

 yeast-fungus often seen on the mucous membrane of the 

 mouths of infants ; regarded by some as the cause of 

 true aphthae. See Sprue. 



Aphthous (of '-thus) [d<pda, an eruption]. Pertaining to 

 or affected with aphthae or thrush. 



Aphyllon (ah-fil'-on) [d priv. ; fyvXkov, a leaf.]. A 

 genus of orobanchaceous plants. A. uniflorum, a 

 plant, the naked broom-rape or cancer-root of North 

 America. It is astringent, and has been employed as 

 a cure for cancer. Unof. 



Aphyllous (ah-fil'-us) [d priv.; <j>v7Jkov, a leaf]. In 

 biology, naturally leafless. 



Apical (a'-pik-al) [apex, the top]. Pertaining to the 

 apex. A. Cell, in biology, the cell at the apex of 

 every branch, leaf or other organ, and from the divi- 

 sion of which all succeeding cells are formed. 



Apices (a'-pis-ez) [L.]. Plural of Apex. Summits. 



Apiculus (ap-ik' -u-lus) [apic, a point]. In biology, a 

 short abrupt point formed by the mid-rib of a leaf pro- 

 jecting beyond the blade. 



Apinoid (ap'-in-oid) [a priv. ; irlvoc, dirt ; eldoc, form]. 

 Clean ; not foul. A. Cancer, schirrhus ; so called 

 from its cleanly section. 



Apiol (ap'-e-ol) [apium, parsley ; oleum, oil], C n H u - 

 4 . A poisonous principle occurring in parsley seeds ; 

 it crystallizes in long white needles, with a slight 

 parsley odor; melts at 30 C. (86° F.), and boils at 

 294 C (572 F.). It is used in dysmenorrhea and in 

 genito-spinal atony. It acts upon the reflex and vaso- 

 motor centers. It is also called parsley-camphor. 

 Dose TT\,iij-x. In doses of rt\,xxx it is narcotic. Unof. 



Apiolin (ap'-e-o-lin) [apium, parsley ; oleum, oil]. A 

 pseudo-apiic alcohol, the active principle of Apium 

 petro.elinum, and a reliable emmenagogue. Dose 

 TTl iij in capsule, night and morning. 



