Definitions For Prosopagnosia

Noun

PROSOPAGNOSIA. (countable and uncountable, plural PROSOPAGNOSIAs) (neurology, pathology, psychology) A form of visual agnosia characterized by difficulty with face recognition despite intact low-level visual processing.

Synonyms

face blindness PA

Coordinate terms

phonagnosia#Noun

Derived terms

acquired prosopagnosia congenital prosopagnosia developmental prosopagnosia hereditary prosopagnosia (HPA) prosopagnosic

Translations

Azerbaijani: prozopaqnoziya Bulgarian: прозопагнозия, f Catalan: prosopagnòsia, f Chinese: : Mandarin: 臉盲症 (liǎnmáng zhèng) Czech: prosopagnosie, f Dutch: prosopagnosie, f Finnish: kasvosokeus French: prosopagnosie, f German: Prosopagnosie, f Greek: προσωπαγνωσία Hebrew: פרוסופגנוזיה Hungarian: prozopagnózia, arcvakság Icelandic: andlitsókenni, f Italian: prosopoagnosia, f Japanese: 相貌失認症 (sōbō shitsuninshō) Luxembourgish: Prosopagnosie, f Macedonian: просопагнозија, f Malayalam: മുഖാന്ധത Norwegian: prosopagnosi Polish: prozopagnozja, f Portuguese: prosopagnosia, f Russian: прозопагнозия, f Slovak: prosopagnózia, f Slovene: prozopagnozija, f Spanish: prosopagnosia, f Swedish: prosopagnosi, c Thai: ภาวะไม่รู้ใบหน้า (paa-wá mâi róo bai nâa) Turkish: prosopagnozi Ukrainian: прозопагнозія, f

See also

super recogniser

Etymology

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