atopognosia

Meanings

noun

medicineThe inability to locate a sensation, especially a point of touch.
However, since patients with atopognosia can detect touch, initial sensory processing must be intact.
123, Yann Coello, Perceptual and Emotional Embodiment: Foundations of Embodied Cognition

nounabsence or loss of topognosia; inability to locate correctly a point of touch

Similar

atopognosis

Broader

nervous disorderneurological disorderneurological disease

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