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prosopagnosia
(redirected from Face blindness)

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prosopagnosia [‚präs·ō·pag′nōzh·yə]
(psychology)
The inability to recognize familiar faces.


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She details the ways in which people of different cultures decorate their faces (including painting, tattooing, and piercing); the process of reconstructing facial parts or creating expressions for individuals with Moebius Syndrome; and the condition of prosopagnosia, or face blindness.
Imagine how this uncertainty feels to those of us with Parkinson's, and to those rendered partially paralyzed with a spinal-cord injury, or those with diabetes who face blindness and amputation.
 
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