Abarognosis is a type of cortical sensory defect[2] consisting of a loss of barognosis, the ability to detect the weight of an object held in the hand or to tell the difference in weight between two objects,[3] or more succinctly "loss of the ability to sense weight".[4] This deficit may be caused by damage to the parietal lobe.[5] The term is from Greek "a" not, "baros" weight, "gnosis" knowledge.[citation needed]
| Abarognosis | |
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| Other names | Baragnosis, baroagnosis[1] |
References
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edit- ^ Dorland 2011, baragnosis
- ^ Black 1995, pg. 14
- ^ abarognosis, Drugs.com, retrieved 2013-03-21
- ^ "abarognosis", The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary, Houghton Mifflin, retrieved 2013-03-21
- ^ Campbell 2012, pg. 554
Sources
edit- Black, Peter McLaren; Rossitch, Eugene (1995), "Neurological Diagnosis", Neurosurgery: An Introductory Text (Google eBook), Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195044492, retrieved 2013-02-21
- Buck, Carol J. (2013), "Section Index to Diseases and Injuries", 2013 ICD-9-CM for Physicians (Google preview), vol. 2 (Professional ed.), Elsevier Health Sciences, ISBN 9781455775033, retrieved 2013-03-21
- Campbell, William W. (2012), "36: Sensory Localization", DeJong's The Neurologic Examination (Google eBook) (7th ed.), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 9781469817521, retrieved 2013-03-21
- Dorland (2011), Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Google eBook) (32nd ed.), Elsevier Health Sciences, ISBN 9781455709854, retrieved 2013-03-21
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