[ əg'nəʊsɪə ]
■ noun Medicine inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a result of brain damage.
Origin
early 20th cent.: coined in Ger. from Gk agnōsia 'ignorance'.
[ əg'nəʊsɪə ]
■ noun Medicine inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a result of brain damage.
Origin
early 20th cent.: coined in Ger. from Gk agnōsia 'ignorance'.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004