单词 | allochiria |
释义 | allochirian. Medicine. Originally: a condition in which a person is unable to determine on which side of the body a stimulus has been applied. In later use: spec. a condition in which a stimulus applied or presented to one side of the body is perceived as occurring on the opposite side.Allochiria has been reported in various conditions affecting the brain and spinal cord, esp. in association with lesions affecting the right parietal lobe, and in hysteria. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered sensation > [noun] formication1707 horripilation1776–84 pseudaesthesia1822 paraesthesia1848 hyperaesthesia1849 paraesthesis1857 phantom limb1871 hemianaesthesia1878 allochiria1881 polyaesthesia1888 allaesthesia1890 thermo-anaesthesia1890 acroparaesthesia1892 allachaesthesia1894 thermaesthesia1899 trichaesthesia1902 hypoaesthesia1906 thermo-aesthesia1909 1881 H. Obersteiner in Brain 4 153 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. 1910 Lancet 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. 1930 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 8 874/1 The circumstance that pain seated on the righthand side is sometimes also felt on the lefthand side, although to a less marked extent, may find its explanation in the principle of allochiria. 1970 D. B. Klein Hist. Sci. Psychol. xxi. 781 In another condition known as allochiria, the error of localization is less random than it is in dyschiria. 2008 Cortex 44 784/2 She detected all left-sided stimuli, both on unilateral and on bilateral presentation, but sometimes reported to have seen a right-sided stimulus when presented with a left-sided one (allochiria). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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