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Definition of Anomia

1. Noun. Inability to name objects or to recognize written or spoken names of objects.

2. Noun. Type genus of the family Anomiidae: saddle oysters.

Definition of Anomia

1. n. A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

Definition of Anomia

1. Noun. (neurology) The inability to remember names. ¹

2. Noun. (neurology) The difficulty in finding the right word. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Anomia

1. A genus of bivalve shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Irregular; priv. + law. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anomia

anomalous diffusion anomalous mitral arcade anomalous phenomena anomalous phenomenon anomalous trichromatism anomalous uterus anomalous viscosity anomalously anomalousness anomalousnesses

anomer anomeric anomeric carbon anomers anomia (current term) anomias anomic anomic aphasia anomie anomies

anomoly anomophyllous anomotreme anomoura anomuran anomurans anomy anon anon.

Literary usage of Anomia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"anomia argentaria Conrad, 1868, Cook's Geol. Survey of New Jersey, p. 724. anomia argentaria Conrad, 1875, Kerr's Geol. of North Carolina, Appendix A, p. ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"This view is borne out to a great extent by the diversity in the situation of the lesions discovered in the cases of anomia already ..."

3. The Conchologist by John Warren (1834)
"anomia. Antique Lamp. Of this peculiar genus of bivalves there are thirty species, ... that the animal of the anomia is different from any other shell fish, ..."

4. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1916)
"anomia argentaria Conrad, 1868, Cook's Geol. Survey of New Jersey, p. 724. anomia argentaria Conrad, 1875, Kerr's Geol. of North Carolina, Appendix A, p. ..."

5. Catalogue of the Collection of Mazatlan Shells in the British Museum by Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1857)
"Tablet 750 contains the pair. GENUS anomia, Linn. 219. anomia LAMPE, Gray. Proa. Zool. Soc. 1849, p. 117;—BM Cat. Anom. p. 19, sp. ..."

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