Wernicke's aphasia

American  

[wur-ni-keez uh-fey-zhuh, vair-ni-keez] / ˈwɜr nɪ kiz əˈfeɪ ʒə, ˈvɛər nɪ kiz /

noun

Pathology.

1. a type of aphasia associated with a lesion in Wernicke's area of the brain and characterized by grammatical and fluent but more or less meaningless speech, and by an apparent inability to comprehend speech.

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Etymology

Origin of Wernicke's aphasia

First recorded in 1905–10; after German neurologist Karl Wernicke (1848–1905), who described the condition in 1874