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A form of aphasia in which a person has lost the ability to speak correctly, substituting one word for another, and jumbling words and sentences unintelligibly.
Synonyms: jargon, paragrammatism, paraphrasia, pseudoagrammatism.
Origin: para-+ G. Phasis, speech
Thematic paraphasia, incoherent speech that wanders from the theme or subject under discussion.
(05 Mar 2000)
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