See Also: paragrammatism(medicine)

coo(1) (iou) and paragrammatism (medicine)


coo(1) (iou)



coo interjection. . E20.
[Imit.]
Expr. surprise or incredulity.

paragrammatism (medicine)


paragrammatism -->
paraphasia


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.

Synonym: jargon, paragrammatism, paraphrasia, pseudoagrammatism.

Origin: para-+ G. Phasis, speech

Thematic paraphasia, incoherent speech that wanders from the theme or subject under discussion.