A female given name from Ancient Greek.

(psychiatry) Word blindness, the inability, due to a cerebral disorder, to comprehend or understand writing.

plural of alexia

(Greek mythology) One of the twin sons of Heracles and Hebe, guardian, along with his twin Anicetus and his father, of the gates of Mount Olympus. / (rare) A male given name from Ancient Greek.

plural of Alexian

A member of an Augustinian Catholic religious institute or congregation specifically devoted to caring for the sick, and which originated in Europe at the time of the Black Death.