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Common Sensory Impairments

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Definition
Abarognosis   Inability to recognize weight  
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Allesthesia   Sensation experienced at a site remote from the point of stimulation  
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Allodynia   Pain produced by a non-noxious stimulus  
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Analgesia   Complete loss of pain sensitivity  
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Astereognosis   Inability to recognize the form and shape of objects by touch  
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Atopognosia   Inability to localize sensation  
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Causalgia   Painful, Burning sensations  
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Dyesthesia   Touch sensation experienced as pain  
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Hypalgesia   Decreased sensitivity to pain  
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Hyperesthesia   Increased sensitivity to pain  
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Pallanesthesia   Increased sensitivity to sensory stimuli  
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Paresthesia   Abnormal sensation such as numbness, prickling or tingling without an apparent cause  
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Thalamic syndrome   Sensory disturbance and partial or complete paralysis of one side of the body due to a vascular lesion of the thalamus  
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Thermanalgesia   Inability to perceive heat  
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Thermhyperesthesia   increased sensitivity to temperature  
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Thermhypesthesia   Decreased temperature sensibility  
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Thigmanesthesia   Loss of light touch sensibility  
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Thermanesthesia   Inability to perceive sensation of heat and cold  
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