2. -phasia - Speech Aphasia – lack of speech is an acquired language disorder in which there is an impairment of any languagemodality This may include difficulty in producing or comprehending spoken or written language Aphasia usually results from lesions to the language-relevant areas of the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes of the brain, such as Broca'sarea, Wernicke's area, and the neural pathways between them
3. Dysphasia – difficulty speaking VERT CLOSELY RELATED TO APHASIA While aphasia suggests the total impairment of language ability, dysphasia is a degree of impairment less than total This is a common symptom for stroke victims Depending on the area and extent of brain damage, someone suffering from aphasia may be able to speak but not write, or vice versa, or display any of a wide variety of other deficiencies in language comprehension and production, such as being able to sing but not speak. Aphasia may co-occur with speech disorders such as dysarthria or apraxia of speech, which also result from brain damage.
4. -esthesia – feeling, sensation Anesthesia – lack of sensation It is a pharmacologically induced reversible state of amnesia, analgesia, loss of responsiveness, loss of skeletal muscle reflexes and/or decreased stress response. This allows patients to undergo surgery and other procedures without the distress and pain they would otherwise experience
5. 3 types of anesthesia local anesthesia a specific location of the body is numbed, such as the hand regional anesthesia anesthesia numbs a larger area of the body by administering anesthesia to a cluster of nerves Two frequently used regional anesthesia are spinal anesthesia and epidural anesthesia general anesthesia describes unconsciousness and lack of any awareness or sensation
