Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pathology, the confusion of sensations in the two sides of the body, as when a patient with locomotor ataxia locates in the right leg a touch on the left leg. Also spelled
allocheiria .
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- noun A
neurological disorder in which thepatient responds tostimuli presented to one side of their body as if presented at the opposite side.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek, ἄλλος (allos, "other") + χείρ (kheir, "hand") + -ia
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