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- noun a
deficiency in theawareness of parts on one's ownbody .
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mollusque commented on the word asomatognosia
Weber had worked with several patients who could not recognize their own body parts. Asomatognosia: it arose surprisingly often, almost always when strokes in the right hemisphere paralyzed a victim's left side.
--Richard Powers, 2007, The Echo Maker, p. 163
November 7, 2008