agrammatism /agram·ma·tism/ (a-gram´ah-tizm) inability to speak grammatically because of brain injury or disease, usually with simplified sentence structure and errors in tense, number, and gender.
agrammatism
a·gram·ma·tism ( -gr m  -t z m, -grm-)n. A form of aphasia characterized by the inability to produce a grammatical or intelligible sentence. |
agrammatism
Neurology A condition characterized by a dissolution of spoken syntax, which becomes laborious and reduced to scattered substantives, and short phrases; in agrammatism, 'function' words are omitted or confused with
each other more often than 'content' words See Jargon agrammatism.
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