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WORD BLINDNESS [2 records]

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Record 1 2012-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
CONT

Alexia (inability to comprehend written language while retaining relatively normal vision) without concomitant writing impairment results when a lesion destroys the left visual cortex and, in addition, involves the outflow of the splenium of the corpus callosum. ... In its pure form the abnormality is rare and follows lesions of the left angular gyrus.

Key term(s)
  • word blindness

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
DEF

Défaut de compréhension de l'écriture dû à une lésion corticale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistema nervioso
DEF

Alteración extrema y específica de la lectura en la que el córtex occipital derecho está desconectado del mecanismo del lenguaje, radicado en el hemisferio izquierdo.

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Record 2 2001-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
DEF

Alexia affecting the ability to read words. "Interior language" is retained, reading being the only language modality to be lost.

OBS

The patient can write spontaneously and do dictation but cannot read what he has written. He may also have difficulty in identifying shapes, or orienting lines, and cannot understand the structure and form of letters. Copying is carried out with great difficulty and is always incomplete, with mistakes with regard to letters and to lines, whereas spontaneous writing is unimpaired.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
DEF

[Alexie qui] se caractérise par l'incompréhension du langage écrit, même si le patient veut relire un de ses propres textes. Par contre, les autres champs du langage sont préservés.

Spanish

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