Abarognosis

Abarognosis
Classification and external resources
ICD-9-CM 781.99[1]

Abarognosis (origin Greek "a" not, "baros" weight, "gnosis" knowledge) is 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]

This condition is also known as 'baragnosis' and 'baroagnosis'.[6]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Buck 2013, pg. 92
  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
  6. ↑ Dorland 2011, baragnosis

Sources

  • Black, Peter McLaren; Rossitch, Eugene (1995), "Neurological Diagnosis", Neurosurgery: An Introductory Text (Google eBook), Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780195044492, retrieved 2013-02-21
  • Buck, Carol J. (2013), "Section Index to Diseases and Injuries", 2013 ICD-9-CM for Physicians (Google preview), Vol. 2 (Professional ed.), Elsevier Health Sciences, ISBN 9781455775033, retrieved 2013-03-21
  • Campbell, William W. (2012), "36: Sensory Localization", DeJong's The Neurologic Examination (Google eBook) (7th ed.), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 9781469817521, retrieved 2013-03-21
  • Dorland (2011), Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (Google eBook) (32nd ed.), Elsevier Health Sciences, ISBN 9781455709854, retrieved 2013-03-21
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