Metonymy

Speech disturbance in which patients, commonly with schizophrenia, use inappropriate words or expressions that are related to the proper ones. Examples include consuming a menu, instead of a meal; losing the piece of string of the conversation, not the thread of the conversation. See also word approximation. 

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