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agnosia
(redirected from Psychic blindness)

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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.

ag·no·sia (g-nzh)
n.
Loss of the ability to interpret sensory stimuli, such as sounds or images.

agnosia (agnō´zē, -zh),
n a loss of ability to recognize common objects (that is, a loss of ability to understand the significance of sensory stimuli e.g., tactile, auditory, or visual] resulting from brain damage).

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