Svensk definition
Defekt i förmågan att förstå såväl talade som skrivna ord och att rätt uppfatta innebörden av det grammatiska förhållandet mellan ord i fraser. Defekten beror på skada i Wernickes area, den främre, vä nstra delen av tinningsloben.
Aphasia, Wernicke
Wernickes afasi
Engelsk definition
Impairment in the comprehension of speech and meaning of words, both spoken and written, and of the meanings conveyed by their grammatical relationships in sentences. It is caused by lesions that primarily affect Wernicke's area, which lies in the posterior perisylvian region of the temporal lobe of the dominant hemisphere. (From Brain & Bannister, Clinical Neurology, 7th ed, p141; Kandel et al., Principles of Neural Science, 3d ed, p846)
Svenska synonymer
Sensorisk afasi — Impressiv afasi — Afasi, Wernicke
Engelska synonymer
Wernicke Aphasia — Aphasias, Wernicke — Wernicke Aphasias — Fluent Aphasia, Wernicke's — Aphasia, Wernicke's Fluent — Fluent Aphasia, Wernicke — Fluent Aphasia, Wernickes — Wernicke's Fluent Aphasia — Dysphasia, Wernicke — Wernicke Dysphasia — Dysphasia, Wernicke's — Dysphasia, Wernickes — Wernicke's Dysphasia — Aphasia, Posterior — Aphasias, Posterior — Posterior Aphasia — Posterior Aphasias — Receptive Aphasia — Aphasia, Receptive — Dysphasia, Receptive — Dysphasias, Receptive — Receptive Dysphasia — Receptive Dysphasias — Sensory Aphasia — Aphasia, Sensory — Aphasia, Psychosensory — Aphasias, Psychosensory — Psychosensory Aphasia — Psychosensory Aphasias — Aphasia, Fluent — Fluent Aphasia — Dysphasia, Fluent — Dysphasias, Fluent — Fluent Dysphasia — Fluent Dysphasias — Dysphasia, Sensory — Dysphasias, Sensory — Sensory Dysphasia — Sensory Dysphasias — Aphasia, Jargon — Aphasias, Jargon — Jargon Aphasia — Jargon Aphasias