Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

alalia

alalia (ȧ*lā"li*ȧ) , noun

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} priv. + {not transcribed} a talking; compare {not transcribed} speechless.]

(Medicine) Impairment of articulate speech, or inability to speak, usually due to impairment of control of muscles in the articulatory apparatus.

Alalia () , noun

[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} priv. + {not transcribed} a talking; compare {not transcribed} speechless.]

(Medicine) Inability to utter articulate sounds, due either to paralysis of the larynx or to that form of aphasia, called motor, or ataxis, aphasia, due to loss of control of the muscles of speech.