Abarognosis
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| synonyms = Baragnosis, baroagnosisDorland 2011, baragnosis
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Abarognosis is a type of cortical sensory defectBlack 1995, pg. 14 consisting of a loss of barognosis, the ability to detect the weight of an object held in the hand or to tell the difference in weight between two objects,{{Citation
|author= |title=abarognosis |publisher=Drugs.com |url=https://www.drugs.com/dict/abarognosis.html |access-date=2013-03-21 }} or more succinctly "loss of the ability to sense weight".{{Citation
|title=abarognosis |work=The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/medical/abarognosis |access-date=2013-03-21 }} This deficit may be caused by damage to the parietal lobe.Campbell 2012, pg. 554
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- {{Citation |last=Buck |first=Carol J. |year=2013 |title=2013 ICD-9-CM for Physicians |chapter=Section Index to Diseases and Injuries |type=Google preview |edition=Professional |volume=2 |publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences |isbn=9781455775033 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VFWfAmDsBgQC&dq=Abarognosis&pg=PA92 |access-date=2013-03-21 }}
- {{Citation |last=Campbell |first=William W. |year=2012 |title=DeJong's The Neurologic Examination |chapter=36: Sensory Localization |type=Google eBook |edition=7th |isbn=9781469817521 |publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nh4RQmZeF2MC&dq=Abarognosis&pg=PA545 |access-date=2013-03-21 }}
- {{Citation |last=Dorland |year=2011 |title=Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary |type=Google eBook |edition=32nd |publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences |isbn=9781455709854 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mNACisYwbZoC |access-date=2013-03-21 }}
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Category:Symptoms and signs: Nervous system
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