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allochiria Path.|æləʊˈkaɪərɪə| Also allocheiria. [mod.L., f. allo- + Gr. χείρ hand: see -ia1.] A condition in which a sensation is referred to a point other than the true one (esp. the corresponding point on the other side of the body).
1881H. Obersteiner in Brain IV. 153 The patient is not clear..as to which side of the body has been touched. I would term the phenomenon ‘Sensory Allochiria’, or shortly ‘Allochiria’ or confusion of sides. 1907E. Jones in Brain XXX. 525 Under the name allochiria two fundamentally different conditions have hitherto been confused. A patient's mistake in determining the side of the stimulus may be (i) part of a general defect in localisation..or (ii) a specific defect independent of any error in localisation. 1910Lancet 1 Jan. 44/2 The difficult subject of allochiria. By this term neurologists have commonly understood the false reference of a point stimulated to a corresponding spot on the opposite side of the body. 1943I. S. Wechsler Textbk. Clinical Neurol. (ed. 5) 44 In certain cerebral lesions..a patient sometimes refers the sensation to a corresponding spot on the opposite limb (allocheiria). So alloˈchiral, -ˈcheiral adj. (a) relating to the other hand; spec. = heterochiral a. (Funk 1893); so alloˈchirally adv.; (b) pertaining to or exhibiting allochiria.
1889W. Thomson Math. & Physical Papers (1890) III. 410 Two men of exactly equal and similar external figures would be allochirally similar if one holds out his right hand and the other his left. 1900Dorland Med. Dict. 32/1 Allochiral, exhibiting reversed symmetry; having the relation of the right hand to the left. 1911T. L. Stedman Med. Dict. 28/2 Allochiral, relating to or suffering from allochiria. |