Dyslexia

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  dyslexia \dys*lex"i*a\ (d[i^]s*l[e^]ks"[-e]*[.a]) n.
     Any of various reading disorders caused by a damaged or
     congenitally faulty structure within the central nervous
     system, and causing an impairment of the ability to interpret
     spatial relationships or to integrate auditory and visual
     information. A common example is when letter sequences are


     interpreted as inverted in order, as in bat/tab. --RHUD
     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dyslexia
       n : impaired ability to learn to read