| Answer | No aphasia; normal | LA18471-5 |
| Answer | Mild-to-moderate aphasia; some obvious loss of fluency or facility of comprehension, without significant limitation on ideas expressed or form of expression | LA18472-3 |
| Answer | Severe aphasia; all communication is through fragmentary expression; great need for inference, questioning, and guessing by the listener | LA18473-1 |
| Answer | Mute, global aphasia; no usable speech or auditory comprehension | LA18474-9 |
| answers-for | Best language [NIH Stroke Scale] | 70194-6 |
| LONG_COMMON_NAME | en-US | NIHSS-best language |
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