dysphasia

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: dys=pha=sia

OXFORD DICTIONARY

dysphasia, n. Med. lack of coordination in speech, owing to brain damage.

Derivative

dysphasic adj.

Etymology

Gk dusphatos hard to utter (as DYS-, PHATIC)

THESAURUS

dysphasia

aphasia, aphonia, artificial voice, broken speech, broken tones, broken voice, childish treble, choked voice, cracked voice, croak, crow, dysarthria, dyslalia, dyslogia, dysphonia, dysphrasia, echolalia, falsetto, harshness, hawking voice, hiss, hoarseness, hysterical aphonia, idioglossia, idiolalia, impairment of speech, imperfect speech, incoherence, lisp, lisping, loss of voice, mutism, muzzy speech, nasal tone, nasalization, psychophonasthenia, quaver, shake, sibilation, speech defect, speech impediment, tremor, twang, verbigeration