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agnosia /ag·no·sia/ (ag-no´zhah) inability to recognize the import of sensory impressions; the varieties correspond with several senses and are distinguished as auditory (acoustic), gustatory, olfactory, tactile, and visual.
face agnosia , facial agnosia prosopagnosia. finger agnosia loss of ability to indicate one's own or another's fingers. time agnosia loss of comprehension of the succession and duration of events. visual agnosia inability to recognize familiar objects by sight, usually due to a lesion in one of the visual association areas.
finger agnosia, a neurologic disorder in which a patient is unable to distinguish between stimuli applied to two different fingers without visual clues; to recognize his or her own digits, for example, finger versus, thumb; or to recognize or identify another person's fingers. It is seen most often in Gerstmann's syndrome. Finger Agnosia The inability to recognise one’s own finger movements in space during voluntary movement agnosia [ag-no´zhah] inability to recognize the import of sensory impressions; the varieties correspond with several senses and are distinguished as auditory (acoustic), gustatory, olfactory, tactile, and visual. finger agnosia loss of ability to indicate one's own or another's fingers. tactile agnosia inability to recognize familiar objects by touch. See also astereognosis. time agnosia loss of comprehension of the succession and duration of events. visual agnosia inability to recognize familiar objects by sight, usually due to a lesion in one of the visual association areas. Called also object blindness and psychic blindness. visual-spatial agnosia (visuospatial agnosia) lack of the ability to analyze and orient using visual representations and their spatial relationships.
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