speech loss
Cannot speak anymore
Speech loss is the partial or complete inability to produce spoken language, whether temporary or permanent.
Causes range from stroke and brain injury to psychological trauma or surgical procedures.
The term encompasses both the physical inability to vocalize and the neurological inability to form words: The stroke resulted in sudden speech loss.
Distinguished from hearing loss, though the two may occur together.
- muteWithout voice or sound
- aphasiaNeurological language impairment
- voicelessHaving no voice
- silentProducing no sound
- tongue-tiedUnable to express oneself
speechless · stammer · stroke · brain injury · wordless · dumb · throat · vocal · whisper · garbled · frustration · gesture · signing · sign language · slurred · brain · trauma · struggle
- Disabilitiesblind, paralysis, developmental disability, hearing impairment, amputees
- neurological symptomsnumbness, tremor, paralysis, aphasia, ataxia
- degenerationdegeneration, neurodegeneration, atrophy, deterioration, demyelination
- medical outcomessurvival rate, cure rate, mortality, death rate, remission
- Aphasiaaphasia, Broca's aphasia, anomia, circumlocution, neologism
- motor diseasesALS, polio, motor neuron disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, paralysis
speech lossspeech
Oral communication ability
eloquence · verbal fluency · voice · vocalization · talkativeness
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