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Definition of Tactile agnosia
1. Noun. A loss of the ability to recognize objects by handling them.
Medical Definition of Tactile agnosia
1. The inability to recognise objects by touch, in the presence of intact cutaneous and proprioceptive hand sensation; caused by lesion in the contralateral parietal lobe. Synonym: astereognosis, stereoagnosis, stereoanesthesia. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tactile Agnosia
Literary usage of Tactile agnosia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Lesions Causing tactile agnosia The freer the tactile agnosia is from accompanying
analgesia, the more likely it is that the lesion will be found confined ..."
2. Mental diseases ; a public health problem by James Vance May (1922)
"Contralateral tactile agnosia and apraxia occur, especially in lesions of the
left hemisphere. An involvement of the left side may also cause a ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... inability to recognize objects by any sound they may cause; visual agnosia,
of which word blindness is one manifestation, and tactile agnosia, ..."
4. Differential Diagnosis of Internal Diseases by Milton Howard Fussell (1916)
"... visual agnosia, of which word blindness is one manifestation, and tactile
agnosia, also known as ..."
5. Differential Diagnosis of Internal Diseases by Milton Howard Fussell (1916)
"... inability to recognize objects by any sound they may cause; visual agnosia,
of which word blindness is one manifestation, and tactile agnosia, ..."
6. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Lesions Causing tactile agnosia The freer the tactile agnosia is from accompanying
analgesia, the more likely it is that the lesion will be found confined ..."
7. Mental diseases ; a public health problem by James Vance May (1922)
"Contralateral tactile agnosia and apraxia occur, especially in lesions of the
left hemisphere. An involvement of the left side may also cause a ..."
8. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... inability to recognize objects by any sound they may cause; visual agnosia,
of which word blindness is one manifestation, and tactile agnosia, ..."
9. Differential Diagnosis of Internal Diseases by Milton Howard Fussell (1916)
"... visual agnosia, of which word blindness is one manifestation, and tactile
agnosia, also known as ..."
10. Differential Diagnosis of Internal Diseases by Milton Howard Fussell (1916)
"... inability to recognize objects by any sound they may cause; visual agnosia,
of which word blindness is one manifestation, and tactile agnosia, ..."
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