Reading Definition, Prefix, Suffix, Ologies and Isms, Reading Information and Meaning

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alexia

dyslexia.

dyslexia

an impairment of the ability to read because of a brain defect. Also called alexia. —dyslexie, adj.

strephosymbolia

Medicine. 1. a disorder of perception causing objects to seem as if reversed in a mirror.

2. a reading difficulty characterized by confusion between similar but oppositely oriented letters (b-d, etc.) and a tendency to reverse direction in reading. —strephosymbolic, adj.