Words that rhyme with paralexia

n 1: inability to perceive written words [syn: visual aphasia, alexia, word blindness]

n 1: a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite

n 1: severe hypoxia; absence of oxygen in inspired gases or in arterial blood or in the tissues

n 1: a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas

n 1: inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait [syn: ataxia, ataxy, dyssynergia, motor ataxia]

n 1: impaired ability to learn to read

n 1: a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste 2: hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold [syn: philosopher's stone, philosophers' stone, elixir] 3: a substance believed to cure all ills

n 1: oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency

n 1: an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness [ant: hypersomnia]

n 1: a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection [syn: fever, febrility, febricity, pyrexia, feverishness]

n 1: a rudaceous rock consisting of sharp fragments embedded in clay or sand

n 1: an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council [syn: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA]

n 1: any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease [syn: cachexia, cachexy, wasting]

n 1: a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae [syn: Ixia, genus Ixia]

n 1: inability to make purposeful movements

n 1: peace of mind

n 1: any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds