One risk was loss of speech.
The only visible symptom was a complete loss of speech.
Her understanding of speech was also impaired… "Aphasia" means, literally, as loss of speech.
Other motor disturbances that are at times associated with conversion disorder are loss of speech (aphonia), coughing, nausea, vomiting, or hiccuping.
In 1997, during the filming of Woody Allen's Celebrity, Nykvist was diagnosed with having progressive aphasia - a rare brain disease that causes words to become mixed up and eventually leads to complete loss of speech.
Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) occur before stroke in 20 percent of patients and consist of sudden onset of one or more of the following symptoms: temporary loss of vision in one eye, unilateral numbness, temporary loss of speech or slurred speech, and localized weakness of an arm or leg.
"I've seen people with loss of speech... one child of four years old… compulsively shooting with a toy gun," Antonio Guterres added.
One week following discharge the patient re-attended our department with multiple 5-min episodes of loss of speech and jerking movement of the right arm.
The drug saves money because it reduces the incidence of disabilities such as paralysis and loss of speech, which means that patients who receive it spend fewer days in the hospital and are less likely to require nursing-home care.
