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The single most common feature in Aphasic patients is

A
Agraphia
B
Alexia
C
Anomia
D
Apraxia
High-Yield Explanation
(C) Anomia # Clinical Examination of Language should include the assessment of naming, spontaneous speech, comprehension, repetition, reading, and writing.> A deficit of naming (anomia) is the single most common finding in aphasic patients.# Anomic Aphasia:> Anomic aphasia is the single most common language disturbance seen in head trauma, metabolic encephalopathy; and Alzheimer's disease.# Pure Alexia without Agraphia:> This is the visual equivalent of pure word deafness.> The lesions (usually a combination of damage to the left occipital cortex and to a posterior sector of the corpus callosum- -the splenium) interrupt the flow of visual input into the language network.

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