grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia +

An apparatus for measuring respiratory volumes by recording changes in body volume.

1. A condition in which someone writes with great rapidity, leaving out words or parts of words.
2. Writing with excessive rapidity, with unconscious ommision of words and syllables.

1. In medicine, a condition in which one writes with great rapidity, leaving out words or parts of words.
2. Hasty writing, with unconscious omission of words, syllables, or letters frequently associated with agitophasia.

Sayings attributed to Jesus Christ but which are not recorded in the Bible but found in other early Christian writings; literally, no writing: "The Biblical scholar studied not only the texts of the Bible but the agraphas which were located in other sources."

The inability to recognize letters or numbers drawn by examiners on the skin of the subjects who are being tested: "In agraphesthesias, the patients' eyes are often closed when these procedures are performed on the skin areas that are normally visible to them so they can't see what the examiners are doing."

"When a person with agraphesthesia can't feel 'writing' on the skin, it is believed that it is usually caused by a central nervous system lesion. This problem is typically tested by an examiner who uses an instrument [not an ink pen nor a pencil] that forms a number in the palm of one of the hands, which the patient can't see, and then asking the person to tell what the number is."

1. Loss of the ability to write, resulting from neurological damage such as a brain lesion: "After Mable's severe head injury, she experienced agraphia and so she was incapable of communicating with a pen or a pencil."
2. Being incapable of writing properly which can be a result of aphasia and alexia that is caused by lesions in various portions of the cerebrum; especially, those in or near the angular gyrus of the brain or that part of the brain that is involved in the processing of auditory and visual input and in the comprehension of language: "After many medical examinations, the doctors determined that the agraphia experienced by Bryant was neurologically different from that which might result from an injured arm."

A loss of the power, or the inability, to communicate ideas in writing: "An agraphic disorder includes the inability to use or to understand written language because of a brain lesion."

A fear of sexual abuse.

The inability to identify numbers or letters traced on the palm (or other parts of the body surface): "Helen Keller did not experience agraphognosia so she was able to learn to write when her teacher traced numbers and letters on her palm."

"Helen Keller (1880-1968) was a United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months as a result of a severe fever. Anne Sullivan taught her to read, to write, and to speak and since she was not hampered by agraphognosia, Helen even graduated from college with honors and went on to become an activist and lecturer in support of blind and deaf people."

Someone who writes about grasses.

A reference to a written description of grasses.

Description of grasses.

A form of airmail registered by Kodak Ltd., in which the correspondent’s letter is photographed on a reduced scale; a letter so transmitted.

The art or process of printing from aluminium plates.

1. Something, especially a signature, written by one person on another’s behalf.
2. A letter or combination of letters that is one of a set that can be used to represent the same speech sound (phoneme); such as, “s”, “ss”, and “c” in English.