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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

alalia

/(ȧ*lā"lĭ*ȧ)/ · a·la·li·a · IPA /əˈleɪliə/
01 n. Impairment of articulate speech, or inability to speak, usually due to impairment of control of muscles in the articulatory apparatus.
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    Impairment of articulate speech, or inability to speak, usually due to impairment of control of muscles in the articulatory apparatus.(Med.)
02 n. Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, d…
  1. 1.
    Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.(Med.)