单词 | letter blindness |
释义 | > as lemmasletter blindness letter blindness n. [after French cécité littérale (1885 or earlier)] Medicine the inability, or loss of the ability, to recognize the letters of an alphabet when seen, resulting from localized brain damage; cf. word blindness n. at word n. and int. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1891 Med. News 1 Aug. 133/1 He was also unable to name the letters (word- and letter-blindness). 1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Nov. 1307/2 So complete was the letter-blindness that she could not recognize a single letter of the alphabet. 2008 N. R. Miller et al. Walsh & Hoyt's Clin. Neuro-ophthalmol.: Essent. (ed. 2) xii. 271/2 This type of alexia with agraphia sometimes is called literal alexia or ‘letter blindness’. < as lemmas |
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