anomian.
/əˈnəʊmɪə/, U.S. /əˈnoʊmiə/ Medicine.
Difficulty in naming objects or persons, as a form or symptom of aphasia; = anomic aphasia at anomic adj.2 1.Also called nominal aphasia.
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aphemia1864
agraphia1867
aphasia1867
asymbolia1874
alexia1875
agraphy1879
amusia1890
anomia1897
dyslexia1917
strephosymbolia1925
acalculia1926
dysgraphia1934
dyscalculia1953
1897 F. W. Langdon in Trans. 52nd Ann. Meeting (Ohio State Med. Soc.) 381 Anomia (name-memory loss) has yet to be located [within the brain] as a pathological entity.
1949 Jrnl. Speech & Hearing Disorders 14 9/2 The present authors regard anomia..as a symptom which is commonly associated with either expressive or receptive aphasia.
1990 Brain 113 398 These authors..measured the anomia of the patients on a battery of test pictures.
2016 M. Hoffmann Cognitive, Conative & Behavioral Neurol. vi. 122/2 In people with anomia, there may be an inability to name an animal such as sheep but there will be knowledge that it provides wool and is commonly reared in Australia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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