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#500 - 03/19/00 11:08 AM forgotten word
copyboy stranger Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 9	What is the word describing the skin's ability to ignore the sensation of objects touching it, like a watchband, or ring, etc. I found this word once, but have forgotten it. Anyone know?
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#501 - 03/19/00 12:49 PM Re: forgotten word
cadaver stranger Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 23 Loc: Ohio USA	dissociated anesthesia ?
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#502 - 03/19/00 04:40 PM Re: forgotten word
copyboy stranger Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 9	dissociated anesthesia sounds good but I don't find it in my dictionaries or the online medical dictionaries. I believe the word I had in mind was one word. I just realized I will see my plastic-surgeon nephew when he's in town next week, and maybe he'll know. Thanks
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#503 - 03/21/00 04:26 PM Re: forgotten word
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	No, sorry, but your question mede me think of an experiment I read about. A subject would sit with his/her forearm on a table, but screened from their sight. Close to this, in full view, was a plastic hand. When the experimenter would tickle the plastic hand, the subject would "feel" it!
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#504 - 04/04/00 04:52 PM Re: forgotten word
jjiillll stranger Registered: 04/04/00 Posts: 1	I have been, for some time now, a quiet observer. How about tactile agnosia?
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#505 - 04/12/00 05:24 PM Re: forgotten word
copyboy stranger Registered: 03/17/00 Posts: 9	Tactile agnosia is in the ball park but I don't it fits exactly because, according to my medical dictionary, it involves a "loss in sensory perception." My missing word does not involve an abnormal loss, but a normal cessation of feeling. Thanks. Copyboy
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#506 - 04/26/00 09:07 PM Re: forgotten word
Philophile stranger Registered: 04/26/00 Posts: 9 Loc: Richmond, VA, USA	How about "autoanaesthesia"? [P.] _________________________ [P.]
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