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First time "user"; amused by anopsia. As a neophyte medical transcriptionist 30 years ago, one of my favorite phrases was "homonymous hemianopsia" for the alliteration and cadence. Obviously this week's words have a medical background--a "busman's holiday" for me!
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if past is prelude, the medical theme is probably either a) coincidental or b) a red herring. it looks like Anu is going with the old alphabetical letters theme. (of course, he could be throwing a curve as he's been getting very predictable.)
oh, by the way; welcome stats. : )
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My WELCOME wagon hasn't been out for a while, since I'm not sure who's a 'first time user' and who's a 'red herring', but since you said First time "user"; I'm going to take you at your word. Glad to have you with us, statwomanma! Think you should wander over to the discussion about where we got our handles, and fill in the gaps for us on yours...
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<<<<homonymous hemianopsia>>>> - but what is it? is anopsia blindness in one eye or both - it's none too clear from AWAD? and does it cover mere impairment eg. RP or macular degeneration???
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hey doc thanks for that. makes me remember why i love this board, even if i'm usually too busy to contribute - the combined talent is so impressive!!!
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Let me add my welcome, statwomanma. For a minute I thought "young" senior might be one to add to the oxymoron file, but in light of your bio, I'd say you're the real article. Hope to hear more from you.
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Hey, Alex, was that just a long-winded way of describing the condition my mother always maintained I had - being blind in one eye and not being able to see out of the other, particularly when I didn't want to? Welcome to the monkeyhouse, statwomanma. A very description nom-de-guerre, I thought after reading your bio. Five? Jeez!
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Yep--my nom-de-plume (how do you say nom-de-keyboard?)is professionally related (and the 5 daughters equalled PMS run amok)! It was fun to get response; obviously there is more to AWAD than meets the eye--even to one not afflicted with anopsia--because I was off base about the week's theme. Now am thinking about prefixes indicating "without" or "away from"...but will keep posted.
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Welcome, "stats", she said, adopting tsuwm's short-cutting. Johnjohn, you're back! [delight e] I'll be very interested to see this week's theme, myself--I can never guess them, though I love to try. Anu, predictable? Har!
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<<<<homonymous hemianopsia>>>> - but what is it?
-- "anopsia" is blindness
-- "hemianopisa" is blindness in one-half the visual field, either the right (or left) half, or perhaps the top (or bottom) half
-- "homonymous hemianopsia" is blindness in the _same_ half of the visual field in both eyes, (e.g. "right homonymous hemianopsia"). It is also possible to be unable to see the inner half of the visual field in both eyes.
The distinction can be helpful in localizing the part of the brain that is causing the blindness - right in front where the optic nerves are, say, as opposed to the back part which identifies the nerve impulses as images.
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"anopsia" is blindness
Anu's example makes clear that the word can be used in the figurative sense, not just the strickly medical sense:
Odd then that with the proliferation of discourses surrounding the concept of "the postcolonial," so little attention should have been paid to a text ... There are, I think, three particular difficulties which may help account for that critical anopsia.
The metaphoric usage brings the word within tsuwm's wwftd preference for the "recondite word, especially one not falling into the following categories: medical terms ..."
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Down here, we use ~anopia - no S. Is this another US vs UK thing?
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