See Also: wernicke's aphasia(medicine)
Wernicke's aphasia(health)
aphasia, wernicke(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Wernicke(dictionary)
Wernicke's region(medicine)
Wernicke's reaction(medicine)
Wernicke's sign(medicine)
Wernicke's syndrome(medicine)
Wernicke's zone(medicine)

aphasia, wernicke (medicine)


aphasia, wernicke
Impairment in the comprehension of speech and meaning by words, both spoken and written, and of the meanings conveyed by their grammatical relationship in sentences. It is caused by a lesion primarily affecting wernicke's area, the left posterior portion of the temporal lobe.