Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In psychology, apprehension by touch of the form or corporeality of objects. See
stereognostic .
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- noun The ability to
perceive theform of an object by using the sense oftouch
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Examples
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Just as in the assessment of kinesthetic praxis, the evaluation of graphesthesia and stereognosis tests ( 1 ) the parietal lobe contralateral to the hand being tested and (2) the connections between the two hemispheres.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
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Other specific tests of integrated function are graphesthesia and stereognosis.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word stereognosis
great sounding word, but not what you'd expect with the prefix stereo-
February 16, 2007