Med. [mod. L. f. Gr. ἀ priv. + -γραφία writing.] Inability to write (as a manifestation of brain-disease).
1871. Academy, 15 March, 183/2. Agraphia, in which the patient speaks, but blunders sadly in writing.
1880. Bastian, Brain, xxix. 658. Agraphia may be appropriately enough allowed to include ‘incoordinate’ as well as ‘paralytic’ defects in the power of mental expression by Writing.
