Forgetful aphasia

Anomic aphasia (AA) is also called amnesticaphasia, which refers to aphasia where anomia is the only or the main symptom. Spoken expressions are difficult to find, lack of substantive words, often describe the function of items instead of words that can't be spoken, and there are many redundant words and empty words. Speech understanding and retelling are normal or near-normal

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