| alexia |
| Definition - An inability to read caused by physical impairment. |
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Etymology - The word derives from the Greek a, not + lexis, word. |
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Oxford English Dictionary - Its first citation is from 1878: "It is … by no means easy to say how much of the alexia and paralexia is to be ascribed to the hemiopia." ( G. B. Shattuck tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. XIV. 774) |