agnosia
/əɡˈnəʊsɪə
/noun [mass noun] Medicine
Inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a result of brain damage: visual agnosia...
- Dementia is chronic and progressive, and it is characterized by the gradual onset of impaired memory and deficits in two or more areas of cognition, such as anomia, agnosia or apraxia.
- The cognitive disorder in Huntington's disease is considered a ‘subcortical’ syndrome and usually lacks features such as aphasia, amnesia, or agnosia that are associated with dementia of the Aizheimer's type.
- Edward DeHaan and his colleagues describe covert recognition in prosopagnosia, another category-specific agnosia in which faces cannot be visually recognized.
Origin
Early 20th century: coined in German from Greek agnōsia 'ignorance'.
- it never rains but it pours
- I told you (so)
- Ito, Prince Hirobumi
- it (or that) (all) depends
- -itous
- it's
- its
- it's a case of ——
- it's a deal
- it's a fair cop
- it's a free country
- it's (all) Greek to me
- it's all right for——
- it's a long lane that has no turning
- it's a long story
- it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
- itself
- it's no skin off my nose (or off my back)
- it's not on
- it's no use crying over spilt milk
- it's no use crying over spilt (or spilled) milk
- it's (or that's) the story of one's life
- it's (or these are) early days
- (it) stands to reason
- it's the thought that counts