Inability to write, as a language disorder resulting from brain damage.
〔医〕失写（症），书写不能
Example sentencesExamples
A clinical diagnosis of alexia without agraphia was made and the patient was subjected to routine investigations.
Gerstmann's syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by four primary symptoms: a writing disability (agraphia or dysgraphia), a lack of understanding of the rules for calculation or arithmetic (acalculia or dyscalculia), an inability to distinguish right from left, and an inability to identify fingers (finger agnosia).
We reported a case of an 86-year old woman with pure agraphia due to the left parietal lobe infarction.
The pure syndrome of alexia without agraphia is best viewed as a ‘linguistic blindfold’.
Eight patients with acquired agraphia were studied using the same writing tests and were compared with normal and brain-damaged controls.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from a-1 'without' + Greek -graphia 'writing'.