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  1. Greek `bad', `pertaining to words'. a
  2. malfunction in the brain's synthesis and
  3. interpretation of sensory information,
  4. popularly `word blindness'. It results in
  5. poor ability to read and write, though the
  6. person may otherwise excel, for example, in
  7. mathematics. A similar disability with
  8. figures is called dyscalculus.
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