disturbance in speech

  • 1speech disorder — n. any conspicuous speech imperfection, or variation from accepted speech patterns, caused either by a physical defect in the speech organs or by a mental disorder, as aphasia, stuttering, etc. * * * ▪ medicine Introduction       any of the… …

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  • 2Free Speech Movement — The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a student protest which took place during the 1964 1965 school year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley under the informal leadership of students Mario Savio, David Goines, Brian Turner,… …

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  • 3Pressure of speech — SignSymptom infobox Name = Other speech disturbance ICD10 = R47.8 ICD9 = ICD9|784.5 Pressure of speech is a tendency to speak rapidly and frenziedly, as if motivated by an urgency not apparent to the listener. The speech produced, sometimes… …

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  • 4Dysarthria — Speech that is characteristically slurred, slow, and difficult to produce (difficult to understand). The person with dysarthria may also have problems controlling the pitch, loudness, rhythm, and voice qualities of their speech. Dysarthria is a… …

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  • 5paralalia — Any speech defect; especially one in which one letter is habitually substituted for another. [para + G. lalia, talking] p. literalis SYN: stammering. * * * para·la·lia lā lē ə n a speech disorder marked by distortions of sounds or substitution of …

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  • 6Friedreich's ataxia — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = 4980 ICD10 = ICD10|G|11|1|g|10 ICD9 = ICD9|334.0 ICDO = OMIM = 229300 MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = neuro eMedicineTopic = 139 MeshID = D005621 Friedreich s ataxia is an inherited disease… …

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  • 7Pilot certification in the United States — Front side of an airman certificate issued by the FAA …

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  • 8Jean Guyon — Infobox Person name = Jean Guyon, du Buisson image size = caption = birth date = 1592 birth place = Tourouvre, France death date = 1663 death place = Beauport, Nouvelle France education = occupation = mason, colonist spouse = Mathurine Robin… …

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  • 9formal thought disorder — disturbance in the form, rather than the content, of thought; disruption in the flow of ideas or speech; inability to follow the normal semantic or syntactic rules in someone with adequate intelligence and education and the cultural background to …

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  • 10mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …

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