anarthrian.
Defective articulation in speech.First used in German by E. Leyden 1867, in Berl. klin. Wochenschr. 25 Feb. 78/1, adopting a suggestion of Dr. Tobias.
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the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun]
oblocution?a1475
hacking1539
misspeaking1650
babble1667
dysphonia1706
inarticulateness1731
inarticulation1765
garble1795
thickness1849
dyslalia1854
dyslaly1856
misarticulation1866
dysarthria1877
dysarthrosis1877
cluttering1878
anarthria1879
inarticulacy1921
dysphasia-
1879 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Anarthria, disjointed speech, an impairment of the articulation usually dependent upon bulbar paralysis.
1897 H. T. Pershing in T. L. Stedman 20th Cent. Pract. X. ix. 779 Stammering, syllable-stumbling, and scanning... The word anarthria may be used to designate any of these defects.
1915 C. B. Craig in Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. LXIV. 51/2 Where this area is the site of disease, the resultant symptom is designated by Marie [1906 La Semaine Médicale 23 May 243/3] anarthria, and is the simple motor aphasia of the older writers.
1926 Contemp. Rev. CXXIX. 96 We have seen a number of hopelessly incurable general paralytics mumbling unceasingly through their anarthria—‘Every day and in every way, I am getting better.’
1961 Brit. Med. Dict. 92/1 Anarthria, the loss of the power of articulating words, the condition being caused by a local lesion.
Derivatives
aˈnarthric adj. of or pertaining to anarthria ( Cent. Dict., 1889).
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