Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A defect in tactile sensation, which causes inability to estimate the form or substance of a body by touch.
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- noun The
inability toidentify anobject bytouch withoutvisual input ; a form oftactile agnosia .
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- noun a loss of the ability to recognize objects by handling them
Etymologies
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Examples
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If the patient experiences difficulty and if his naming ability as previously tested is intact, he is manifesting astereognosis, which could be due to dysfunction of the contralateral in this case, the nondominant parietal lobe or of interhemispheric connections, such as the corpus callosum.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Irritative lesions of the sensory mechanism cause numbness and tingling (paræsthesia); more extensive paralytic lesions produce anæsthesia, astereognosis, loss of muscle sense, loss of pain, or inability to distinguish temperature, according to the tracts that are affected.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
sonofgroucho commented on the word astereognosis
Definition here.
December 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word astereognosis
Fascinating, SoG. Thanks for the link.
December 8, 2007