Abarognosis

Abarognosis
Other namesBaragnosis, baroagnosis[1]

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]


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Notes

  1. ↑ Dorland 2011, baragnosis
  2. ↑ Black 1995, pg. 14
  3. ↑ abarognosis, Drugs.com, retrieved 2013-03-21
  4. ↑ "abarognosis", The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary, Houghton Mifflin, retrieved 2013-03-21
  5. ↑ Campbell 2012, pg. 554

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