transcortical aphasia

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   a general term for aphasia that results from lesions outside of Broca's area or Wernicke's area of the cerebral cortex

   Broaderaphasia

Questions about transcortical aphasia

What does transcortical aphasia mean?

transcortical aphasia means "a general term for aphasia that results from lesions outside of Broca's area or Wernicke's area of the cerebral cortex".

Is transcortical aphasia a common word?

transcortical aphasia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.