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agnosia Path.|ægˈnəʊsɪə| [mod.L., a. Gr. ἀγνωσία ignorance (ἀ- priv., γνῶσις knowledge: see gnosis).] Freud's term (Zur Auffassung der Aphasien, 1891) for loss of perception (sense 7). Hence agˈnosic a.
1900Dorland Med. Dict. 27/2 Agnosia, loss of the perceptive power; loss of the power to recognize persons or things seen. 1940Hinsie & Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 16/1 In psychiatry the term agnosia is employed to indicate the loss or disuse of knowledge of objects, when the knowledge appears to have been altered by emotional circumstances. 1953E. Stengel tr. Freud's On Aphasia 78 For disturbances in the recognition of objects, which Finkelnburg called asymbolia, I should like to propose the term ‘agnosia’. 1953M. Critchley Parietal Lobes vi. 191 The various types of visual agnosic defects. 1961Brit. Med. Dict. 57/1 Agnosia is found in relation with the senses: auditory agnosia, gustatory agnosia, olfactory agnosia, optic agnosia, and tactile agnosia. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia i. 2 Another kind of dichotomy also came about, which looked upon cases of alexia without agraphia as instances of ‘agnosic alexia’. 1974E. Lausch Manipulation v. 72 People whose association areas have been damaged can still see and can describe exactly the shape and colour of what they see, but they have difficulties in recognizing what they have seen. It is hard to transpose oneself into the world of such a ‘visually agnosic’ person, as the doctors call it. 1976S. S. Gubbay (title) A study of developmental apraxia and agnosic ataxia. |