dysnomia; word-finding difficulty

Etiology

• cerebral ischemia
  • transient ischemic attack
  • ischemic stroke
• dementia

* also see Wernicke's aphasia

Clinical manifestations

• Difficulty remembering names of persons & objects. Special laboatory:
• if acute, transient
  • electrocardiogram
  • carotid ultrasound

Radiology

• consider neuroimaging
• consider CT angiography of head & neck

More general terms

• sign/symptom

Additional terms

• amnesic-dysnomic aphasia (anomic aphasia)
• anomia
• Wernicke's aphasia; fluent aphasia; garbled speech