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visual agnosia

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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.

visual agnosia.
visual agnosia (ag·nōˑ·zh),
n the lack of ability to use one's sense of sight to distinguish objects even though eyesight is intact.

visual agnosia
 Neurology An inability to recognize objects and people, a common finding in parietal lobe tumors. See Agnosia.


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