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aphasic

[uh-fey-zik, -sik] / əˈfeɪ zɪk, -sɪk /


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He’s great at picking up insider images, too, as when Bannon describes Giuliani, in his aphasic periods, as in the “mumble tank.”

From Los Angeles Times

So the hospital hired a speech pathologist who used a controversial technique called facilitated communication, which is where the speech therapist holds the hand of the aphasic patient.

From Los Angeles Times

Paige’s preoccupations run to humiliating Arnold, once a wife beater and now an aphasic stroke victim, by dressing him in clown makeup and ladies’ nighties.

From Washington Post

On those immediate postelection mornings in November when I lay in bed aphasic and estranged from myself, whatever did not address the current predicament seemed unworthy.

From New York Times

“You know, dear, maybe you want to write the first aphasic memoir,” she recalled telling him two months after the stroke.

From New York Times