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# alexia

«alexia» in Mova's school dictionary: **A loss of the ability to read, usually after damage to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (alexia — uncountable); name (Alexia)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (medicine) A loss of the ability to read, usually after damage to the brain, for example from a stroke, in someone who could read before. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#m1)

2) (a name) Alexia is a girl's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Met in science or health talk about the brain, and as a person's name in class lists and stories. It is not the same as dyslexia.

### examples

- After her stroke, Grandma had alexia for a while. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#x1)
- Alexia means a person who could read loses that skill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#x2)
- Alexia is in my netball team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#x3)
- Doctors helped him relearn reading after alexia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#x4)
- Alexia read her story to the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#x5)
- Alexia is rare compared with dyslexia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/#x6)

### note

Medical word is uncountable; the name takes a capital A. Do not mix up with dyslexia, which is a lifelong difference in learning to read.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «alexia» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alexia/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.