单词 | anosognosia |
释义 | anosognosian. Pathol. Unawareness of or failure to acknowledge one's hemiplegia or other disability. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > convulsive or paralytic disorders > [noun] > palsy or paralysis > types of > unawareness of or failure to acknowledge anosognosia1915 1915 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 27 Mar. 521/2 Recently Babinski observed in two cases of organic cerebral hemiplegia that the patients ignored or appeared to ignore the existence of the paralysis with which they were affected. To this condition he gave the name anosognosia. 1937 Bull. Los Angeles Neurol. Soc. II. 103 We have reported six cases in which anosognosia was an important element in the clinical picture. 1961 R. Brain Speech Disorders xiv. 168 Babinski (1914) first used the term anosognosia to describe unawareness of hemiplegia. Since it means imperception of disease, however, it is now more generally applied to cover unawareness of hemiplegia, blindness, deafness and aphasia. 1985 O. Sacks Man who mistook Wife 3 It is impossible, for patients with certain right-hemisphere syndromes to know their own problems—a peculiar and specific ‘anosagnosia’, as Babinski called it. 1991 New Scientist 9 Feb. 52/1 Another aspect of awareness is revealed in neurological patients who are unaware of their impairments (anosagnosia) and fail to comprehend their problems, or even deny them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online November 2010). < n.1915 |
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