semantic paraphasia

a form of paraphasia in which conversational speech is fairly fluent but objects are misnamed, although some associative connection may exist. For example, a pipe may be called a “smoker” and glasses a “telescope.”

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November 18th 2024

influencing machine

the subject of a delusion of persecution in which the individual feels controlled by a machine that serves as the instrument of persecution.