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Definition of Agnosia
1. Noun. Inability to recognize objects by use of the senses.
Generic synonyms: Brain Disease, Brain Disorder, Encephalopathy
Definition of Agnosia
1. Noun. The inability to recognize objects by use of the senses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agnosia
1. loss of ability to recognize familiar objects [n -S]
Medical Definition of Agnosia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Agnosia
Literary usage of 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)
"The different clinical forms of agnosia have already been described. i.
Lesions Causing Tactile agnosia The freer the tactile agnosia is from accompanying ..."
2. Mysticism, Freudianism and Scientific Psychology by Knight Dunlap (1920)
"One of these terms is agnosia which means literally '' lack of knowledge."
The other is Divine Gloom. Both of these are used to describe the mystic ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Auditory and visual aphasia are divisions of a condition known as' agnosia.
By this is meant the inability to recognize a heretofore familiar object by any ..."
4. Psychiatric-neurologic Examination Methods: With Special Reference to the by August Wimmer (1919)
"Speech—Writing—agnosia—Apraxia (A) Speech disturbances may be due to, first,
errors in the pronunciation (articulation), in the formation and in the ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"However, one sometimes sees in typical cases of tactile agnosia slight disturbances
of ... Efforts have been made to differentiate tactile agnosia and ..."
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