Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A defect in tactile sensation, which causes inability to estimate the form or substance of a body by touch.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a loss of the ability to recognize objects by handling them
Examples
“If the patient experiences difficulty and if his naming ability as previously tested is intact, he is manifesting astereognosis, which could be due to dysfunction of the contralateral in this case, the nondominant parietal lobe or of interhemispheric connections, such as the corpus callosum.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“Irritative lesions of the sensory mechanism cause numbness and tingling (paræsthesia); more extensive paralytic lesions produce anæsthesia, astereognosis, loss of muscle sense, loss of pain, or inability to distinguish temperature, according to the tracts that are affected.”
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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reesetee Fascinating, SoG. Thanks for the link. Dec 7, 2007
sonofgroucho Definition here. Dec 7, 2007