346. Reading

See also 29. AUTHORS ; 53. BOOKS ; 248. LITERARY STYLE ; 249. LITERATURE ; 409. VERSE .

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.