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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.