noun
mass nounMedicineInability to write letters, symbols, words, or sentences, resulting from damage to various parts of the brain.
‘The pure syndrome of alexia without agraphia is best viewed as a ‘linguistic blindfold’.’- ‘Gerstmann's syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by four primary symptoms: a writing disability (agraphia or dysgraphia), a lack of understanding of the rules for calculation or arithmetic (acalculia or dyscalculia), an inability to distinguish right from left, and an inability to identify fingers (finger agnosia).’
- ‘Eight patients with acquired agraphia were studied using the same writing tests and were compared with normal and brain-damaged controls.’
- ‘A clinical diagnosis of alexia without agraphia was made and the patient was subjected to routine investigations.’
- ‘We reported a case of an 86-year old woman with pure agraphia due to the left parietal lobe infarction.’
Origin
Mid 19th century from a-‘without’ + Greek -graphia ‘writing’.
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