Meaning Agnosia
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An inability to recognize sensory inputs such as light, sound, and touch). Agnosia is typically a result of brain injury. For example, damaging the back part of the brain can cause visual agnosia (inability to properly recognize objects by sight).
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Absence of the ability to recognize the form and nature of persons and things.
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noun. reduction or handicap of the capacity to acknowledge, understand, or recognize the definition of sensory stimuli. The health problem is correlated with neurological injury or neurologic disease [..]
Source: psychologydictionary.org

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Agnosia is diagnosed when an individual is unable to properly process sensory information and recognize sounds, objects, persons, shapes, smells, etc. without damage or defect to sensory organs or any [..]
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An inability to organise sensory information so as to recognise objects (e.g. visual agnosia) or sometimes even parts of the body, (e.g. hemisomatoagnosia).
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The inability to recognize objects, despite being able to describe them in terms of form and color; may occur after localized brain damage.
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Absence of the ability to recognize the form and nature of persons and things.
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(n) inability to recognize objects by use of the senses
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Failure to recognize familiar objects although sensory mechanism is intact. May occur for any sensory modality. [Click Here to Return to List]
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A rare disease in which a person can't recognize objects, shapes, or people. Often due to a brain or neurological condition.
Source: health.harvard.edu

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A loss of the ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes or smells without injury to the primary sensory organ or memory loss
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A defect in the ability to recognize and intepret compex stimuli caused by lesion in the angular gyrus.
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A neurological disorder which causes a partial or complete loss of the ability to recognize otherwise familiar stimuli. Auditory agnosia is an inability to recognize sounds. See also agraphia, amusia, anomia, alexia, aphasia, aprosodia.
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Loss of the ability to comprehend the meaning or recognize the importance of various Forms of stimulation that cannot be attributed to impairment of a primary sensory modality. Tactile agnosia is char [..]
Source: online-medical-dictionary.org

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The inability to recognize a familiar Face or to learn to recognize new Faces. This visual Agnosia is most often associated with lesions involving the junctional regions between the temporal and Occip [..]
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Loss of the Power to comprehend written materials despite preservation of the ability to write (i.e., alexia without Agraphia). This condition is generally attributed to lesions that "disconnect& [..]
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Loss of the ability to comprehend the meaning or recognize the importance of various forms of stimulation that cannot be attributed to impairment of a primary sensory modality. Tactile agnosia is char [..]
Source: medicaldictionaryweb.com

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<neurology> Loss of ability to recognise objects, people, sounds, shapes or smells. Usually classified according to the sense or senses affected (hearing, sight, smell, taste, touch). Symptom common to tumours of the parietal lobe of the cerebral hemispheres. (16 Dec 1997)
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Agnosia


The inability to recognize objects by use of the senses.
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