A patient who has difficulty finding words and has laborious, slow, and halting speech is showing signs of:
A) nonfluent aphasia.
B) fluent aphasia.
C) transcortical syndrome.
D) word deafness.

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The symptoms described (difficulty finding words, slow and halting speech) are characteristic of nonfluent aphasia, which is also known as Broca's aphasia. This type of aphasia is caused by damage to the language-associated areas in the brain's frontal lobe, and is typically characterized by slow, effortful speech and difficulty forming complete sentences. Fluent aphasia, on the other hand, is characterized by smooth, rapid speech that may be grammatically correct but lacks meaning. Transcortical syndromes and word deafness are not specifically indicated by the symptoms described.

A Patient Who Has Difficulty Finding Words and Has Laborious