the word I was searching for today
Today, I was trying to come up with one disease which can cause very selective anomias. What I came up with was “STD”, “neurological”, and eventually ended up settling on “hepatitis”, although I was pretty sure that was not right.
I just figured out what it was - herpes simplex encephalitis. In class, I got some of the right semantic activation (”STD” - herpes, “neurological” - encepha…), and some of the phonology right (”itis”). It just took a little while to access the real lexical item.