Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction
tactile agnosia
tac·tile ag·no·sia
Definitions related to tactile agnosia:
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(astereognosis) Inability to identify familiar objects by touch. Seen with neurological deficit. See also neurological amnesia.Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and PsychologyBJ Sadock Titles Press, 2012
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(astereognosia) Inability to recognize the form of objects by touch without visual input. That is, an impairment in the recognition of objects based only on the texture, size, weight and three-dimensional form of the object in the absence of any major somatosensory deficit.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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