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amusia

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amusia /amu·sia/ (ah-mu´ze-ah) a form of auditory agnosia in which the patient has lost the ability to recognize or produce music.
a·mu·si·a (-myz-, -zh)
n.
Loss or impairment of the ability to produce or comprehend music or musical tones.
amusia
[ə·myo̅o̅′zē·ə]
Etymology: Gk, amousia, want of harmony
an inability to recognize the significance of sounds, manifested as loss of the ability to recognize or produce music.
amusia [a-mu´ze-ah]
loss of ability to produce (motor amusia) or to recognize (sensory amusia) musical sounds.
amusia
Neurology Inability to recognize or produce music. See Tone-deafness.
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Another area of study is tone deafness - "why people get thrown out of the school choir," said Prof Griffiths, who is the leading UK expert on amusia, of the medical loss of musical ability.
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And yet even profound amusia might be just an exaggerated form of a dysfunction, or adaptation, that affects us all.
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