Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of small crabs, among the earliest of the Brachyura, having an elongate, pentagonal, deeply furrowed carapace with granulate surface. Several species from Jurassic and Cretaceous formations are known.
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The defining paper was by a German neurologist in the 1940s and he coined the term prosopagnosia - "prosopon" is the Greek for a face or a mask - for this apparently specific difficulty recognizing faces.
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The defining paper was by a German neurologist in the 1940s and he coined the term prosopagnosia - "prosopon" is the Greek for a face or a mask - for this apparently specific difficulty recognizing faces.
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The defining paper was by a German neurologist in the 1940s and he coined the term prosopagnosia - "prosopon" is the Greek for a face or a mask - for this apparently specific difficulty recognizing faces.
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The defining paper was by a German neurologist in the 1940s and he coined the term prosopagnosia - "prosopon" is the Greek for a face or a mask - for this apparently specific difficulty recognizing faces.
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The defining paper was by a German neurologist in the 1940s and he coined the term prosopagnosia - "prosopon" is the Greek for a face or a mask - for this apparently specific difficulty recognizing faces.
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The defining paper was by a German neurologist in the 1940s and he coined the term prosopagnosia - "prosopon" is the Greek for a face or a mask - for this apparently specific difficulty recognizing faces.
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The defining paper was by a German neurologist in the 1940s and he coined the term prosopagnosia - "prosopon" is the Greek for a face or a mask - for this apparently specific difficulty recognizing faces.
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The defining paper was by a German neurologist in the 1940s and he coined the term prosopagnosia - "prosopon" is the Greek for a face or a mask - for this apparently specific difficulty recognizing faces.
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The defining paper was by a German neurologist in the 1940s and he coined the term prosopagnosia - "prosopon" is the Greek for a face or a mask - for this apparently specific difficulty recognizing faces.
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The word person is Latin, instead whereof the Greeks have prosopon, which signifies the face, as persona in Latin signifies the disguise, or outward appearance of a man, counterfeited on the stage; and sometimes more particularly that part of it which disguiseth the face, as a mask or vizard: and from the stage hath been translated to any representer of speech and action, as well in tribunals as theatres.
Leviathan 2007
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