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Agnosia
- Definition
- Not due to primary sensory deficit
- Sensory interpretation deficit
- Auditory agnosia
- Gustatory agnosia
- Olfactory agnosia
- Tactile agnosia
- Visual agnosia
- Testing
- Recognize objects in hand (coin and key)
- Recognize chairs or pencils
- Recognize family members
- Prosopagnosia
- Hemilateral neglect
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| Definition (MSH) | Loss of the ability to comprehend the meaning or recognize the importance of various forms of stimulation that cannot be attributed to impairment of a primary sensory modality. Tactile agnosia is characterized by an inability to perceive the shape and nature of an object by touch alone, despite unimpaired sensation to light touch, position, and other primary sensory modalities. |
| Definition (CSP) | loss of the ability to distinguish the significance of stimuli; may be auditory, visual, olfactory, tactile, or gustatory. |
| Concepts | Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction (T048)
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| ICD9 | 784.69 |
| English | Agnosia, Agnosias, Loss of perception of sensory stimuli |
| Spanish | agnosia, pérdida de percepción a los estÃmulos sensitivos, perdida de percepcion a los estimulos sensitivos |
| Credits | Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)
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