[mod.L., f. Gr. ἀ priv. + φήμη voice, speech, fame; but Gr. ἄφημος, = ‘not famed, unknown.’] Loss of power of articulation, as a result of cerebral affection; spec. a form of APHASIA, in which words are understood and conceived but cannot be uttered.
1864. Jrnl. Ment. Sc., X. 260. The seat of morbid change in aphemia is the third frontal convolution.
1878. A. M. Hamilton, Nerv. Dis., 163. Broca [c. 1861] denominated the condition ‘aphemia.
