Medical term:

paraphrasia


paraphasia

 [par″ah-fa´zhah]
partial aphasia in which the patient uses wrong words, or uses words in wrong and senseless combinations. Called also paragrammatism, paraphemia, and paraphrasia.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

par·a·pha·si·a

(par'ă-fā'zē-ă),
A form of aphasia in which a person has lost the ability to speak correctly, substituting one word for another and jumbling words and sentences unintelligibly.
See also: jargon.
Synonym(s): paragrammatism, paraphrasia, pseudoagrammatism
[para- + G. phasis, speech]
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Agrammatism

A type of expressive aphasia characterised by a disintegration of spoken syntax, resulting in laboured speech peppered with substantives and short phrases. Function words such as verbs are omitted—resulting in so-called telegraphic speech—or are confused with each other more often than content words.
Aetiology Broca’s aphasia, traumatic brain injury.
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paraphrasia

Neurology Use of words that approximate those intended Etiology Organic brain disease, schizophrenia Psychology Unintended garbling of speech while consciously attempting to speak
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