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Nov 30, 2009
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Wer'nick•e's apha'sia



Pronunciation: (vâr'ni-kēz, -kuz), [key] Pathol.
a type of aphasia caused by a lesion in Wernicke's area of the brain and characterized by grammatical but more or less meaningless speech and an apparent inability to comprehend speech.

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Wernicke-Korsakoff syndromeWernicke's area
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