(One of the benefits of being a medical transcriptionist is having all of these medical books and dictionaries at hand) Aphasia, in general is defined as "defect or loss of the power of expression by speech, writing, or signs, or of comprehending spoken or written language, ue to injury or disease of th brain. Types of aphasia include (but are not limited to): Amnesic aphasia (defective recall of specific names of objects or other words with intact abilities of comprehension and repetition). Fluent aphasia (a type of repetitive aphasia in which speech is well articulated and grammatically satisfactory but is lacking in content). Global aphasia (aphasia involving all the functions of spoken or written language and comprehension). Motor aphasia (aphasia in which there is an impairment of the ability to speak and write owing to a lesion in the insula and surrounding operculum). Optic aphasia (inability to name objects seen, due to interruption of the connection between the speech and visual centers). Somatic aphasia (aphasia characterized by a lack of recognition of the full significance of words and phrases). Syntactical aphasia (a type of agrammatism in which some necessary elements for coherent sentences are lacking). True aphasia (aphasia due to lesion of any one of the speech centers). Agrammatism is an inability to speak grammatically because of brain injury or disease, typically shown clinically by simplified sentence structure (telegraphic speech) and errors of tense, number, and gender. Paraphasia is partial phasia in which the patient employs wrong words or uses words in wrong and senseless combinations. Literal paraphasia is the replacement of one or more sounds in otherwise correct words. Verbal paraphasia is a substitution of one correct word or phrase for another, sometimes related in meaning and sometimes completely unrelated. ....... So, I think we have described different ones of the above. The symptom I am experiencing would be verbal paraphasia, as described above. Katherine