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cant(4) (iou) and conduction aphasia (medicine)


cant(4) (iou)



cant noun1. [kant] ME.
[In branch I from Middle Low German kant point, creek, border, kante side, edge, Middle & mod. Dutch cant border, side, corner, from Proto-Romance var. (repr. by Old French cant, French chant, champ, Spanish, Italian canto edge, corner, side) of Latin cant(h)us iron tyre. In branch II from CANT verb2.]
I. An edge, brink, side. Only in ME.
A corner, an angle; a corner piece; a triangular piece. obsolete exc. dial. E17.
Each of the side-pieces in the head of a cask. E17.
Nautical. Each of the timbers of a ship etc. towards the bow and the stern which are sharply angled from the keel. Also, a supporting timber. L18.
The oblique line or surface which cuts off the corner of a square, cube, etc.; an oblique, inclined, or slanting face. M19.
II.
A sudden movement, esp. a toss, pitch, etc., which overturns. E18.
A slope, a tilt; a deflection from the perpendicular or horizontal. M19.
Comb.: cant-line the space between two strands on the outside of a rope, or between the bilges of two barrels side by side; cantrail a timber or stay supporting the roof of a railway wagon etc.

conduction aphasia (medicine)


conduction aphasia


A form of aphasia in which the patient understands spoken and written words, is aware of his deficit, and can speak and write, but skips or repeats words, or substitutes one word for another (paraphasia);word repetition is severely impaired. The responsible lesion is in the associate tracks connecting the various language centres.

Synonym: associative aphasia.