Definition of acalculia in English:
acalculia
noun ˌeɪkalˈkjuːlɪəˌākalˈkyo͞olēə
mass nounMedicine Loss of the ability to perform simple calculations, typically resulting from disease or injury of the parietal lobe of the brain.
Example sentencesExamples
- This reported acalculia, specifically anarithmetria, is a feature atypical for the pure syndrome of alexia without agraphia.
- Denburg and Tranel have described three general categories of acalculia, which are summarized in Table 11-1.
- Patients with acalculia are unable to perform mathematical calculations, although some other numerical processing may still be available to them.
- The clinical terms are acalculia, for people like Signora Gaddi who lost her sense of numbers after a stroke, and dyscalculia for people who were born without numbers.
- This site gives links to pertinent other sites, including on smoker brain damage, especially acalculia, and an overview of the background on the smoking-gambling connection.
- Testing of acalculia has to encroach both oral and written calculations with clinical and standardized neuropsychological tests.
Origin
Early 20th century: from a-1 'not' + Latin calculare 'calculate' + -ia1.