alliterationmedical dictionary

In psychiatry, a speech disturbance in which words commencing with the same sounds, usually consonants, are notably frequent.

Origin: Fr. Alliteration, fr. L. Ad, to, + littera, letter of alphabet

(05 Mar 2000)

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