anosognosia

anosognosia
a) The inability of a person to recognize his or her own illness or handicap.
b) Failure to be aware of a defect or deficit resulting from disability, due to brain injury (e.g. Anton-Babinski syndrome).

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  • Anosognosia — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda En Psicopatología, anosognosia (del griego: a, prefijo privativo + nosos, enfermedad + gnosis, conocimiento: desconocimiento de la enfermedad ) es la situación patológica referida a los pacientes con problemas… …   Wikipedia Español

  • anosognosia — f. psiquiat. Ignorancia de una enfermedad o trastorno por parte del afectado. Medical Dictionary. 2011. anosognosia ignorancia …   Diccionario médico

  • anosognosia — anosognosia. (De a 2, el gr. νόσος, enfermedad, y γνῶσις, conocimiento). f. Psicol. Enfermedad que consiste en no tener conciencia del mal notorio que se padece …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • anosognosia — (De a 2, el gr. νόσος, enfermedad, y γνῶσις, conocimiento). f. Psicol. Enfermedad que consiste en no tener conciencia del mal notorio que se padece …   Diccionario de la lengua española

  • Anosognosia — Infobox Symptom Name = Anosognosia Background = Caption = ICD10 = ICD10|R|41|8|r|40 ICD9 = ICD9|780.9 ICDO = OMIM = DiseasesDB = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = Anosognosia is a condition in which a person who suffers disability… …   Wikipedia

  • anosognosia — Failure to be aware of a defect or deficit. We normally take it that, for instance, seeing colours and being aware of ourselves as seeing colours go together. In anosognosia a subject may be unable to see colours, but not notice that the capacity …   Philosophy dictionary

  • anosognosia and hallucinations —    The term anosognosia comes from the Greek words a (not), nosos (illness), and gnosis (insight). It translates loosely as lack of knowledge of one s illness . The French neologism anosog nosie was introduced in or shortly before 1914 by the… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • anosognosia — Ignorance of the presence of disease, specifically of paralysis. Most often seen in patients with non dominant parietal lobe lesions, who deny their hemiparesis. [G. a priv. + nosos, disease, + gnosis, knowledge] * * * ano·sog·no·sia (an… …   Medical dictionary

  • anosognosia — …   Useful english dictionary

  • anosognosia for blindness —    see Anton Babinski syndrome …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

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