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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AGNOSIA

New Latin, from Greek agnōsia, from a- without + gnōsis knowledge.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AGNOSIA

agnosia  [æɡˈnəʊzɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AGNOSIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Agnosia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AGNOSIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Agnosia

Agnosia is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss. It is usually associated with brain injury or neurological illness, particularly after damage to the occipitotemporal border, which is part of the ventral stream. Agnosia only affects a single modality, such as vision or hearing.

Definition of agnosia in the English dictionary

The definition of agnosia in the dictionary is loss or diminution of the power to recognize familiar objects or people, usually as a result of brain damage.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AGNOSIA


afrormosia
ˌæfrɔːˈməʊzɪə
ambrosia
æmˈbrəʊzɪə
blowzier
ˈblaʊzɪə
cosier
ˈkəʊzɪə
cozier
ˈkəʊzɪə
frowzier
ˈfraʊzɪə
hosier
ˈhəʊzɪə
lousier
ˈlaʊzɪə
osier
ˈəʊzɪə
symposia
sɪmˈpəʊzɪə
topagnosia
ˌtɒpæɡˈnəʊzɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AGNOSIA

agnathan
agnathous
agnatic
agnatical
agnatically
agnation
Agnes
Agnesi
Agnew
Agni
agnise
agnize
agnoiology
agnomen
agnomina
agnominal
Agnon
agnosic
agnostic
agnosticism

WORDS THAT END LIKE AGNOSIA

abrosia
amnesia
Anastasia
Asia
Bahasa Indonesia
celosia
fantasia
French Polynesia
fuchsia
Indonesia
Leukosia
Levkosia
Malaysia
Micronesia
Nicosia
Polynesia
prosopagnosia
Russia
Southeast Asia
Tunisia

Synonyms and antonyms of agnosia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «agnosia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AGNOSIA

Find out the translation of agnosia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of agnosia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «agnosia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

失认症
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

agnosia
570 millions of speakers

English

agnosia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पहचानने में असमर्थता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عمه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

агнозия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

agnosia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

agnosia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

agnosie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Agnosia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Agnosie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

失認
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

agnosia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Agnosia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

agnosia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தூண்டல்களுக்கு பொருள் காண இயலா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अग्निसिझन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

agnozi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

agnosia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

agnosia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

агнозія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

agnosia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγνωσία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

agnosie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

agnosi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

agnosia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of agnosia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AGNOSIA»

The term «agnosia» is normally little used and occupies the 114.387 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AGNOSIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about agnosia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AGNOSIA»

Discover the use of agnosia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to agnosia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Visual Agnosia
The second edition of the classic book on visual agnosia, updated to include disorders of semantic knowledge and topographic recognition, and integrating perspectives from functional neuroimaging throughout.
Martha J. Farah, 2004
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Neurology in Clinical Practice: Principles of diagnosis and ...
Visual Agnosia Apperceptive-Associative Distinction Apperceptive Visual Agnosia Associative Visual Agnosia Assessment of Visual Agnosia Auditory Agnosia Nonverbal Auditory Agnosia 131 131 132 133 136 136 136 Pure Word Deafness ...
Walter George Bradley, 2004
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Patient-based Approaches to Cognitive Neuroscience
Martha J. Farah Todd E. Feinberg The term visual object agnosia refers to the impairment of object recognition in the presence of relatively intact elementary visual perception, memory, and general intellectual function. This chapter reviews the ...
Todd E. Feinberg, Martha J. Farah, 2000
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To See But Not To See: A Case Study Of Visual Agnosia
63 Types of Visual Agnosia 68 What Goes Wrong in Such Cases? 72 Other Questions 79 5. Other Visual Problems in Agnosic Patients 83 Loss of Colour Vision—Achromatopsia 83 Inability to Find the Way—Topographical Agnosia 84  ...
Humphreys Glyn W Riddoch M Jane, Glyn W. Humphreys Birkbeck College, University of London; M. Jane Riddoch North East London Polytechnic., Humphreys, Glyn W.; Riddoch, M. Jane, 2013
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DeJong's the Neurologic Examination
Agnosia refers to the loss or impairment of the ability to know or recognize the meaning or import of a sensory stimulus, even though it has been perceived. Agnosia occurs in the absence of any impairment of cognition, attention, or alertness.
William Wesley Campbell, Russell N. DeJong, 2005
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Agnosia and Apraxia: Selected Papers of Liepmann, Lange, and ...
Disorder of primary identification (in Wemicke's sense, extension, volume, relief, form); perceptual astereognosis, astereognosis or agnosia of elementary identification. 3. Disorders of secondary identification, conceptual astereognosis,  ...
Jason W. Brown, 2013
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Aphasia: A Clinical Perspective
object name. The classic visual agnosia occurs when the patient fails to name on visual confrontation but easily succeeds when the object is presented through another sensory modality (Milner and Teuber, 1968; Rubens and Benson, 1971).
David Frank Benson, Alfredo Ardila, 1996
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Insight and Psychosis
Phenomenology of Autonoetic Agnosia in Schizophrenia The characteristics that embody the self are so broad that it is difficult to reach consensus on a circumscribed definition of self. According to Webster's American Collegiate Dictionary, ...
Xavier Francisco Amador, Anthony S. David, 1998
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Medical-legal and Forensic Aspects of Communication ...
In the broadest definition of the word, agnosia means lack of recognition (Benson and Ardila, 1996). It is the impairment of the ability to recognize and appreciate the significance of a stimulus in one sense modality. It can occur in all of the five ...
Dennis C. Tanner, 2007
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From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure
8.5 Associative Agnosia A further aspect of Mart's (1982) computational theorising on visual perception is that visual semantic processes are separated from the attainment of a structural description of an object. The group studies reviewed ...
Tim Shallice, 1988

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AGNOSIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term agnosia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Visual signs and symptoms in patients with the visual variant of …
Lesions of the ventral system (« what » pathway) produce alexia without agraphia, visual object agnosia, and prosopagnosia (inability to ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jun 15»
2
D'Arcy, Davenport, Valverde Star in 'Gernika'
... includes Alex Garcia (“Kamikaze”), Barbara Goenaga (“Agnosia”), Burn Gorman (“Pacific Rim”) and Joachim Assboeck (“Schindler's List”). «Variety, Jun 15»
3
Autistic mum pens 'purrfect' trilogy
She was left with no sense of independence due to suffering from facial and topographical agnosia – an inability to recognise places or people. «Ripley Today, Jun 15»
4
13 Books to Read This Summer
Sacks is best known for his writings on neurological disorders — like visual agnosia in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat — which make ... «Dallas Observer, Jun 15»
5
A beautiful mind
Among the many conditions he features are Tourette's syndrome, Parkinson's disease, migraines, colour blindness, visual agnosia (the inability ... «Winnipeg Free Press, Jun 15»
6
Interview with John Hable: Dispelling the Uncanny Valley
Other people have the reverse problem called Visual Agnosia. They have had brain damage to part of their brain but their FFA is still intact. «GamingBolt, Jun 15»
7
Why Oliver Sacks Always Goes Too Far
The case study for which the collection is entitled is of a man with visual agnosia, the inability to recognize objects, even people. Sacks helps us ... «The Atlantic, May 15»
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How Elijah Wood Overcame the Baggage of 'The Lord of the Rings …
Eugenio was someone I met socially at Fantastic Fest when "Agnosia" premiered. Then it was a year later that I got a script he was attached to ... «Indie Wire, May 15»
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After studying other people's minds, Oliver Sacks looks at his own
... famous essay that became his bestseller, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” Sacks introduces a patient suffering from visual agnosia, ... «New York Post, May 15»
10
The American Ritual of Racial Killings
I made up that term, “socio-visual agnosia.” There is an actual neurological condition called visual agnosia. The patient in Oliver Sacks' famous ... «The Nation., Apr 15»

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