Abarognosis

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| name = Abarognosis

| 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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