inability to recognize objects by touch, in the presence of intact cutaneous and proprioceptive hand sensation; caused by a lesion in the contralateral parietal lobe. Synonym(s): astereognosis, stereoagnosis, stereoanesthesia
stereoanesthesia
S18-897220 (stĕr″ē-ō-ăn″ĕs-thē′zē-ă) [″ + an-, not, + aisthesis, sensation] The inability to recognize objects by feeling their form.