dystextia

English

Etymology

From dys- +‎ text +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

dystextia (countable and uncountable, plural dystextias)

1. (neurology, pathology) Disordered or garbled text messaging associated with medical events like a stroke.
   • 2013, A Ravi, VR Rao, JP Klein, “Dystextia: Acute Stroke in the Modern Age”, in JAMA Neurol, volume 70, number 3, →DOI, page 404:
   • 2019, Amit K. Sharma, Sebastian Fridman, Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht, Luciano A. Sposato, “Dystextia and dystypia as modern stroke symptoms: A case series and literature review”, in Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, volume 180, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 25–27:

     Stroke recognition remains a barrier to care in cerebrovascular disease. Despite an increasing reliance on digital communication, the clinical utility of deficits relating to technology remains unexplored. Dystextia and dystypia, terms used to refer to impairments in texting and typing, respectively, may serve as modern indicators of stroke and provide information regarding stroke duration, symptomatology, and etiological diagnosis.

Related terms

• dystypia

Further reading

• Larner, A. J. (2016) A Dictionary of Neurological Signs, Fourth edition, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 106