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prosopagnosias

prosopagnosias is the plural of prosopagnosia.

Meaning of prosopagnosia

Noun

prosopagnosia (countable and uncountable, plural prosopagnosias)

  1. A form of visual agnosia characterized by difficulty with face recognition despite intact low-level visual processing.
    • A normal person can name someone from facial features alone, even if the features have changed substantially over the years. People with prosopagnosia are not able to make this association, but have few other neurological symptoms other than a loss of some part of the visual field.1984, Robert Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation, page 102
    Synonyms:
    face blindness, PA

Questions about prosopagnosias

What is prosopagnosias the plural of?
Prosopagnosias is the plural of prosopagnosia.

Words near prosopagnosias in the dictionary

  1. prosomites
  2. prosonomasia
  3. prosop-
  4. prosopa
  5. prosopagnosia
  6. prosopagnosias
  7. prosopagnosic
  8. prosopagnosics
  9. prosopalgia
  10. prosopalgias
  11. prosopalgic

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