ANARTHRIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anarthria mean? 

• ANARTHRIA (noun)
  The noun ANARTHRIA has 1 sense:

1. partial or total loss of articulate speech resulting from lesions of the central nervous system

  Familiarity information: ANARTHRIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANARTHRIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Partial or total loss of articulate speech resulting from lesions of the central nervous system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("anarthria" is a kind of...):

defect of speech; speech defect; speech disorder (a disorder of oral speech)