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- noun medicine The ability to
evaluate theweight of objects, or todifferentiate objects of different weights by holding or lifting them.
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Prolagus commented on the word barognosis
"The ability of evaluating the weight of objects, or to differentiate objects of different weights by looking at them."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_pressure
January 21, 2012