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aphasia

inability to comprehend or formulate language
MedicalCondition class_of_disease Q2836
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Summary

aphasia is a class of disease[1]. aphasia ranks in the top 2% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,982 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: symptom or sign[3]
  • Subclass of: language disorder[4], neurological symptom[5], specific language impairment-5[6], disease[7]
  • Commons category: Aphasia[8]
  • ICPC 2 ID: N19[9]
  • Symptoms and signs: muteness[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Aphasias[11]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C34393[16]
  • Different from: aphasia[17]
  • Health specialty: neurology[18], neuropsychology[19], speech-language pathology[20]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_0060046[21], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:0060046[22], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0002357[23], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SYMP_0000508[24]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[25]

Why It Matters

aphasia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] aphasia is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

Bruce Willis disease Makhmur neurology neuropsychology speech-language pathology Steven L. Small Taare Zameen Par

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Symptom Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . Disease Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Identifiers.org. registry.identifiers.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Human Phenotype Ontology release 2018-03-08. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Symptom Ontology. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q295543
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q295543, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → oJlP7
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → language disorder, neurological symptom, specific language impairment-5 +1
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/39732|batch #39732]]: rm redundant subclass"
  4. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → aphasia
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: aphasia, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289909374|aphasia (#289909374)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0009173-afazie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0009173-afazie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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